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What Is Strict Liability? When You Can Sue Without Proving Negligence
Learn what strict liability means, when negligence is not required, and how dog bites, defective products, and dangerous activities can lead to compensation.
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Insurance Personal Injury Vehicle Accidents
PIP Insurance in Massachusetts: What It Covers, How to Claim It, and When It Runs Out
Learn how Massachusetts PIP insurance works, what it covers, how to file a claim, and what happens when your benefits run out.
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Medical Treatment
What Is the Difference Between Medical Negligence and Malpractice? A Plain-English Guide for Massachusetts Accident Victims
Learn the difference between medical negligence and malpractice, how Massachusetts law treats these claims, and what it takes to prove liability.
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Safety
Summer Safety: Avoiding the Season’s Most Serious Injuries
Summer is filled with vacations, outdoor activities, family gatherings, and time spent enjoying the outdoors. Unfortunately, despite the fun, there are also risks of serious accidents and catastrophic injuries. While many people view these incidents [...]
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Sharing the Road This Spring: Safety Tips for Motorists, Bicyclists, and Motorcyclists
As the springtime comes and temperatures rise, so does the number of cyclists and motorcyclists on the road. Spring riding season often brings a measurable increase in severe and catastrophic injuries [...]
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Safety Vehicle Accidents
Snow on Your Roof: A Serious Road Hazard
After a snowstorm, finding your car covered in snow can be frustrating. Many drivers may quickly clear the windows and windshield but leave snow on the roof or other areas of [...]
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Diller Law News In The News
Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys Journal – February 2025 Vol. 15, No. 9
Vol. 15, No. 9 Law Without Light By Thomas M. Bond
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Vehicle Accidents
More Car Crashes Happen During the Fall Season
Many people assume winter is the most dangerous season for driving, but in many states, fall actually poses the greatest risk – resulting in more car crashes than any other time of year. According to a CARFAX [...]
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Bicycle Safety Safety
Bicycle Safety Q&A
As the weather gets warmer, we love to see more and more people biking throughout the city. Whether it’s commuting to work or school, cruising around town or getting in some [...]
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Safety Vehicle Accidents
Safety Tips About Hydroplaning
Spring showers bring May flowers, but those rain showers also bring risks. With all of the rain that comes during the spring season, road conditions can be affected – which can [...]
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Drunk Driver Safety Vehicle Accidents
Don’t Drive Distracted: The 3 Types of Distracted Driving
Distracted driving is defined by the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration as “any activity that diverts attention from driving.”
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Ladder Safety Premises Liability Safety
Ladder Safety: On the Job Site and at Home
Ladders are common tools found in both homes and workplaces, but did you know they can be dangerous? Each year, thousands of people are injured from falling off ladders. It is [...]
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Diller Law News In The News
Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys Journal – February 2025 Vol. 15, No. 7
Vol. 15, No. 7 There’s no substitute for practice By Marc A. Diller
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Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys Journal
Vol. 15, No. 6 | Our mission: Vitalize the next generation By Marc A. Diller
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Diller Law Partner Responds to Judge’s Ruling Allowing Punitive Damages for eBay Harassment Victims
“The Steiner’s always believed what happened to them was not only egregious, but scary. Scary that an American corporation can engage in a campaign of terror against innocent people who simply [...]
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EBay Must Face Punitive Damages For Some Stalking Claims
By Rachel Scharf, LAW360 A Massachusetts federal judge held Friday that a pair of bloggers can pursue punitive damages from eBay Inc. on some of their civil claims over an [...]
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Lawyer argues Karen Read using 5th Amendment as ‘sword and shield’ in O‘Keefe lawsuit
Karen Read sits at the defense table between her attorneys on May 21, 2024, during her murder trial at Norfolk County Superior Court. (Pool Photo by Matt Stone/Boston Herald) By [...]
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O’Keefe Family: Read’s Ever Changing Stories Don’t Match the Truth
“Karen Read has told many stories about the 2022 death of our beloved John O’Keefe in extensive interviews for two-hour network news specials, a two-part series in a glossy national magazine, [...]
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Diller Law’s Response to the Court Order Delaying O’Keefe Estate’s Civil Trial
“We respect the court’s decision and its legal rationale for staying a civil matter during a pending criminal case against Karen Read. While the court ruled that Read’s Fifth Amendment right [...]
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Karen Read seeks delay in wrongful death lawsuit until her trial on murder and other charges is done
BOSTON -- Karen Read is seeking to delay a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of her Boston police officer boyfriend until her criminal trial in connection with his death [...]
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Canton bar denies claims in wrongful death suit from John O’Keefe’s family
Boston Police O cer John OʼKeefeʼs̓ family alleges C.F. McCarthyʼs̓ served alcohol to a “visibly intoxicated” Karen Read before she purportedly struck and killed OʼKeefe.
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eBay employees harassed them over their reporting. Now the company wants their sources.
Ina and David Steiner are suing eBay and others over incidents in 2019 when employees sent them threatening messages, bizarre deliveries including live spiders and a funeral wreath, and tried to [...]
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Safety
Safer Boston Streets for Bikers, Walkers and Bus Riders
This summer, Boston began work on their Boylston Street Better Bus and Bike Lane project. The project is part of an extensive plan over the next three years to transform Boston’s [...]
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As Mass. courts work through pandemic backlog, judicial vacancies add extra complications
By Sean Cotter Globe Staff Five years after attorney Lisa Arrowood filed a medical malpractice lawsuit, the case still hasn’t gone to trial. She came close in August, but the case [...]
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Product Recalls Products Liability Public Health
Are Stanley Tumblers Unsafe?
Recently it has been confirmed that the extremely popular Stanley tumblers contain lead. Buzz began on social media about there being lead in the tumblers and Stanley responded to the claims [...]
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Ask Dr. John – Post-Traumatic Knee Injuries
Diller Law has helped clients who have had post-traumatic knee injuries. There are a wide array of injuries that can occur to the knee, and we know how severe some may [...]
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Consulting Tips
Using Focus Groups to Develop Trial Strategies
As lawyers, we think we know the answers. In fact, clients hire us to deliver answers and/or results. One of the biggest mistakes that trial lawyers make, however, is assuming jurors [...]
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Ask Dr John Medical Treatment
Ask Dr. John – Cervical Spine Injuries
Diller Law has had many clients come to us with injuries to their cervical spine. We know these injuries can be serious and that there is an array of treatments available [...]
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Premises Liability Safety Vehicle Accidents
The Dangers of Wet Leaves
I’m sure we all love the beautiful signs of fall time in New England – the temperature cooling down, the apples growing on the trees, and leaves changing color to create [...]
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Drunk Driver Vehicle Accidents
Bar Goes Down with the Drunk
Can the Bar that served the drunk driver involved in my accident be held responsible? Yes. In Massachusetts we have what is called Dram Shop Law, and under that law [...]
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Product Recalls Products Liability Safety
Giro Merit Helmets Recalled for Risk of Head Injury
Bell Sports, a subsidiary of Vista Outdoor, is an American maker of bicycle and motorcycle helmets. Recently, Bell Sports recalled Giro Merit helmets due to risk of head injury. Giro is [...]
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Drunk Driver Safety Vehicle Accidents
Three Types of Distracted Driving in Massachusetts
According to the Center for Disease Control, nine people in the United States are killed every day in crashes that reportedly involve a distracted driver. In Massachusetts alone, there have been [...]
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Inspiration
All-Star Tip: Embrace adversity
By Marc Diller, written for Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys Why do Plaintiffs’ trial lawyers fear that jurors will judge unfavorably our clients’ pre-injury adversities? It’s time we embrace our clients’ hardships [...]
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Product Recalls Products Liability Safety
Fisher-Price Recalls Product for the Second Time
In April 2019, Fisher-Price, recalled their popular “Rock ’n Play Sleeper” after over 30 infant fatalities occurred. These fatalities were reported to be the result of infants rolling from their back [...]
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