In Massachusetts don’t be fooled to believe that an insurance adjuster is on your side. The insurance company’s job is to make sure that they pay as little as possible on this claim. The insurance company is responsible for medical bills, lost wages, and pain and suffering and they will do their very best. They are trained to do so to keep those claims as low as possible.
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My name is Robert Mazow. I am a partner at Mazow McCullough. If you have been hurt or a family member has been hurt as a result of someone else’s negligence call us. The right lawyer makes all the difference.
In Massachusetts because we have the MBTA there are certain notice requirements that aren’t necessary the same as in regular car accidents. In Massachusetts if you have been struck by an MBTA or you are a passenger on an MBTA bus and you have been injured there are certain statuary notice requirements necessary in order to bring a claim against the MBTA. So in that regard they are different then regular car accidents.
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My name is Robert Mazow. I am a partner at Mazow McCullough. If you have been hurt or a family member has been hurt as a result of someone ale’s negligence call us the right lawyer makes all the differences.
If you have been injured in a motor vehicle collision or a pedestrian collision and you’re seeking an attorney. It’s important to know the background of that attorney, what the experience level of that attorney is. You do not just want to call an attorney who knows or handles personal injury work you want to hire an attorney who is experienced. Somebody who’s worked for the insurance companies in the past who’s defended the insurance companies in the past. Who knows what to expect before the insurance companies or there lawyers even have time to react. You want to have a lawyer who can handle any situation and is willing to go to battle for you even if that includes litigation and trial.
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My name is Kevin McCullough with the law offices Mazow and McCullough. If you have been injured, you need legal assistance, you have questions, you deserve answer to those questions and you deserve the best call our offices.
In Massachusetts the number one misconception that people have about dog bite injuries is that a dog gets one free bite before you can make a claim. That is not true in Massachusetts, well it may be true in other states we are a strict liability state here. If that dog bites you it only has one bite at which time you are entitled to make a claim against the dog owner or the dog controller for the pain and suffering from the bite.
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My name is Robert Mazow, I’m a partner of Mazow and McCullough. If you have been hurt or a family member has been hurt as a result of somebody else’s negligence, call us, the right lawyer makes all the difference.
A 15-year-old boy was attending a school-sponsored football camp in Maine, which provided a lifeguard.
After practice, the camper swam beyond an enclosed dock area, struggled and called to the lifeguard. According to the plaintiff, the lifeguard did not appropriately respond, instead telling the boy to stop fooling around. The camper drowned before the lifeguard could come to his aid.
The plaintiff claimed that the camp failed to properly monitor the waterfront and that the lifeguard did not react reasonably to the boy’s cries. The plaintiff also alleged that the town that sponsored the trip negligently supervised the camper.
The plaintiff successfully defeated the municipality’s motion for summary judgment based on sovereign immunity. Maine’s wrongful death cap of $500,000 applied to the camp.
Case Dtails
Action: Negligence & tort Injuries alleged: Drowning death Case name: Withheld Court/case no.: Withheld Jury and/or judge: N/A (settled) Amount: $1.2 million Date: Jan. 18, 2011 Most helpful expert: Francesco A. Pia, waterfront safety expert, Larchmont, N.Y. Attorney: Robert E. Mazow, Mazow & McCullough, Salem (for the plaintiff)
Published: 2:06 pm Thu, May 26, 2011 2:06 pm Thu, May 26, 2011
By Mass. Lawyers Weekly Staff Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
Because most dog bite attacks are done by a dog that a person does not know, the number one mistake that people make is to not get the name of the owner or the person that is in control of that dog. Once that dog is taken away from the scene, if you don’t have the name of the dog or the registration number of the tag or the person that is in control or owns that dog, there is going to be no way you are going to be able to make a claim from the damages that come from that.
Contact a Massachusetts Dog Bite Lawyer
My name is Robert Mazow. I’m a partner of Mazow and McCullough. If you have been hurt or a family member has been hurt as a result of somebody else’s negligence, call us, the right lawyer makes all the difference.
Car-pedestrian accidents are on the rise in Massachusetts because of the use of cell phones, text messaging and radio play. Pedestrians are more likely to be hit these days by automobiles. If you are a pedestrian and you’ve been hit crossing the street, you can make a claim against the person that hit you.
Contact a Massachusetts Pedestrian Accident Lawyer
My name is Robert Mazow. I’m a partner of Mazow and McCullough. If you have been hurt or a family member has been hurt as a result of somebody else’s negligence, call us, the right lawyer makes all the difference.
Ask anyone on the street about the definition of a “frivolous” lawsuit and one case comes to everyone’s mind: The McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case. Then, ask the same person about the facts of the case and they’ll inevitably say that it is about the lady who spilled hot coffee in her lap while driving and got millions of dollars in return. The truth, however, is far from the story that has been the butt of so many jokes for so long. In fact, the woman, Stella Liebeck, was not driving, she was in a parked car operated by her nephew; the coffee was so hot (180 – 190 degrees) that she received third-degree burns requiring skin grafting and surgery; she remained in the hospital for eight days; Ms. Liebeck attempted to settle with McDonald’s prior to trial for the amount of her medical bills; the judge drastically reduced the size of the jury’s verdict; then the parties settled for an undisclosed amount.
Now, a lawyer-turned-filmmaker, Susan Saladoff, has brought Ms. Liebeck’s true story in a new documentary called Hot Coffee, which premiered at the Sundance International Film Festival. In the film, the story of what really happened to Ms. Liebeck is explained as opposed to the gross mischaracterization we have become accustomed to hearing about.
In fact, the movie takes aim at US Chamber of Commerce and the Tort Reform Movement efforts to try to deny average citizens’ access to justice and courts. The movie also documents the costs of Tort Reform to taxpayers with an emphasis on medical malpractice liability caps.
The truth is that the “McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case” has been the greatest form of free advertising to the insurance industry and Tort Reformers. How many injured victims and families have been denied justice or been the recipients of low verdicts because jurors have been plagued with the idea that this case is just another frivolous case like the “McDonald’s” case? How many billions of have insurance companies saved as a result of the misinformation spread about this case?
So, the next time someone brings up the “McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case”, tell them the truth.
For more information about Hot Coffee go to http://hotcoffeethemovie.com/
Mazow & McCullough, PC and a local law firm started a joint venture in Salem, Massachusetts called PIP Collect, LLC. PIP stands for Personal Injury Protection and is a requirement on every Massachusetts Automobile Insurance Policy. PIP is the section of your automobile insurance policy that pays for medical bills, funeral expenses and lost wages. Regardless of whose fault the accident was, the automobile insurance company of the car you were in is responsible for the reasonable and necessary medical expense for your medical treatment. There is up to $8,000.00 of available PIP coverage for reasonable and necessary medical expenses.
Insurance companies use a variety of tactics and strategies to reduce payments owed to health care providers for your medical treatment. Sometimes the reductions are based upon medical examinations conducted by doctors hired by insurance companies; sometimes the reductions are based upon a review of the patient’s medical records; sometimes the reductions are based on an audit of the providers medical bills based upon an alleged analysis of the average provider bill in the geographic region. The insurance companies then use these strategies to claim that medical treatment is not reasonable or necessary.
PIP Collect, LLC represents medical providers to sue insurance companies when they wrongfully withhold insurance payments for reasonable and necessary medical treatment. At Mazow & McCullough, PC, we don’t believe that our clients should be responsible for medical treatment that should be paid for by insurance companies. That’s why we started PIP Collect, LLC – to hold insurance companies responsible for reasonable and necessary medical bills for treatment related to a car accident.
