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Your Legal Rights in Nursing Home Care

Submitted by bierlaw on Mon, 10/01/2007 - 12:00am
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One of the most difficult decisions a family member can make is to place a loved spouse or parent in a nursing home. When this is done, the individual has every right to expect that the patient/resident will be treated with care and dignity. Unfortunately, in our experience, this is not always the case.
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Cape couple wins a round against subprime lender

Submitted by bierlaw on Wed, 03/07/2007 - 1:00am
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Judge tells firm it cannot foreclose until suit resolved

By Kimberly Blanton, Globe Staff

A Massachusetts judge has ordered Ameriquest Mortgage Co. to halt a $715 monthly increase in a Cape Cod couple's March payment and to refrain from foreclosing on their property until a lawsuit over the mortgage is resolved.

Disposal company suit resolved

Submitted by bierlaw on Thu, 02/22/2007 - 1:00am
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By Eric Williams
Cape Cod Times - February 22, 2007

BARNSTABLE - A resolution has been reached in the $10 million wrongful death lawsuit brought against the owner of Cape Cod Disposal Co., the garbage removal company that employed Christopher McCowen, the convicted killer of Christa Worthington of Truro.

The details of the resolution have not been made available to the public and neither party has released the terms.

McCowen was Worthington's garbage collector when she was stabbed to death in 2002.

Firm Settles Surgical Malpractice Case For $750,000

Submitted by bierlaw on Mon, 01/01/2007 - 1:00am
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“It’s a procedure performed thousands of times a year without incident,” says former partner Steve Delamere, about winning this high profile, and costly case. “Costly because if proper post-surgical procedures are not followed, the damage to the patient can be extraordinary.”

Lawyers Weekly - A Case of Bad Blood

Submitted by bierlaw on Mon, 01/01/2007 - 1:00am
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"Will you take our case?"

Attorney Bruce A. Bierhans looked across his desk at Bill Modestino and his wife, Brenda. Their son's short life had been filled with illness - first, severe hemophilia, and then the devastating AIDS virus that killed him in 1993.

But Bierhans had to be honest."You're never going to get an expert witness to testify against the doctors. I can't help you," he apologized.

2006 Civil suit looms ahead

Submitted by bierlaw on Sat, 11/19/2005 - 1:00am
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Cape Cod Times Archives
By ERIC WILLIAMS STAFF WRITER,
Published: November 19

Another Christa Worthington trial looms in Barnstable County, this one a $10 million civil matter. An undated file photo showing Christa Worthington, who was found killed in her Truro, Mass., home on Cape Cod in January 2002.

Even after Christopher McCowen was sent to jail as a convicted murderer last Thursday, there remains unfinished business, which could return criminal- trial witnesses to the stand, perhaps within a year.

What's a legally binding contract in cyberspace?

Submitted by bierlaw on Fri, 11/07/2003 - 1:00am
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Case Update
By ETHAN ZINDLER, STAFF WRITER

That question is at the heart of a simmering legal dispute between a Wellfleet business and a nationally known Internet Service Provider (ISP) that may one day affect thousands of Cape Codders. The case moved one step closer to trial thanks to the decision handed down by a federal appeals court last Friday.

Grieving dad makes medical malpractice his mission

Submitted by bierlaw on Wed, 07/30/2003 - 12:00am
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by Howard Manly

Ten years have passed since the death of Billy Modestino on July 31, 1993, and his father is probably more worried now than ever before.

He knows firsthand about medical malpractice and negligence. His son, a hemophiliac, contracted AIDS as a child after using blood tainted with the virus. The doctors never told his son about the risk of contracting the virus, a risk well-known throughout the medical industry at the time.