The personal injury attorneys at the Greater Boston Law Firm of Altman & Altman, LLP have over 40 years of experience of successfully bringing claims
against liable parties such as the MBTA.
Not exact matches
«Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be
liable to the
party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought
against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in
such officer's judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable.»
The purpose of the statute of frauds is to protect people from being held
liable on informal communications because they may be made without sufficient consideration or expressed ambiguously or because
such a communication might be fraudulently alleged
against the
party to be charged.
Even if someone is already being charged with having committed a criminal act, if the criminal act (
such as causing an accident and then fleeing the scene of
such accident) resulted in the injury of another, regardless of whether or not the accident was caused by recklessness, distracted driving or, say, a DUI, the injured
party can — and should — make a claim
against the
liable individual.
If your injuries resulted from the negligence of a subcontractor, a product manufacturer or some outside agency
such as a delivery service, you may have grounds to file a personal injury claim
against the
liable third
party, in addition to a workers» compensation claim through your employer's insurance company.
In case any
such action is brought
against an Indemnified
Party, and it notifies the Indemnifying
Party of the commencement thereof, the Indemnifying
Party will be entitled to participate in, and, to the extent that it may wish, jointly with any other Indemnifying
Party similarly notified, to assume the defense thereof, subject to the provisions herein stated, with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified
Party, and after notice from the Indemnifying
Party to the Indemnified
Party of its election to so assume the defense thereof, the Indemnifying
Party will not be
liable to the Indemnified
Party under this Section 9 for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by the Indemnified
Party in connection with the defense thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation.
In the event that another
party that is not your employer,
such as the building architect, engineer, or the manufacturer of a defective product, is found responsible for your construction accident, one of our Massachusetts personal injury lawyers can help you file a construction accident claim
against the
liable parties.