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#1 Post-Mortem Begins of Assisted-Living Fire That Killed 9 in Massachusetts
Jul 15 2025 // Flames roared through an assisted-living facility in Massachusetts, killing nine people and trapping residents inside, including some who leaned out of windows and screamed for help, authorities said Monday. At least 30...
#2 Deadly Massachusetts Fire Highlights Assisted-Living Regulation, Staffing
Jul 17 2025 // The Massachusetts assisted-living facility where a fatal fire killed nine people was caring for dozens of aging residents reliant on wheelchairs and oxygen tanks, but it lacked the safety measures and most of the staffing...
#3 Damages Upheld for Man Whose Ex-Girlfriend Shared Nude Photo Without Permission
Jan 17 2025 // A Massachusetts man who sued his ex-girlfriend over her sharing an unflattering nude photo of him and accessing his personal online accounts without permission has had his $10,280 court award upheld. In December 2023, a...
#4 Ban on Switchblades Violates Second Amendment: Massachusetts High Court
Aug 28 2024 // A 1957 Massachusetts law banning the possession of certain switchblades violates the federal Second Amendment right to bear arms, the highest court in Massachusetts has ruled. The state court found that switchblades...
#5 Massachusetts Voters Allow Uber, Lyft Drivers to Unionize
Nov 7 2024 // Massachusetts voters on Tuesday approved a ballot measure that would allow ride-share drivers to unionize, becoming the first U.S. state to allow drivers for app-based companies like Uber and Lyft to do so. With 94% of...
#6 Massachusetts Assisted Living Home Had Been Cited for Late Safety Reports
Jul 16 2025 // A Massachusetts assisted-living center where nine residents died in a fire was cited for failing to immediately report more than two dozen health and safety incidents, according to regulators’ most recent review of...
#7 Massachusetts Probes Robinhood Again, This Time Over March Madness Betting
Mar 27 2025 // REUTERS EXCLUSIVE Massachusetts’ top securities regulator has begun an investigation into trading platform Robinhood’s decision to launch a prediction-markets hub that allows users to bet on the outcomes of a...
#8 ‘Surface Waters’ on Roof Are Not ‘Flood’ Waters, Massachusetts High Court Rules
Jul 23 2024 // The highest court in Massachusetts has ruled that rainwater accumulation on roofs of buildings does not constitute “surface waters” within the meaning of “flood” in property insurance policies. The...
#9 Massachusetts High Court Upholds $20 Million Verdict Over Leg Amputation
Jan 7 2025 // The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has upheld a $20 million jury award in a medical malpractice case that found three medical professionals caused a patient to have an above-the-knee amputation of his leg. In 2023, a...
#10 Massachusetts High Court Upholds Workers’ Comp for Utility Worker’s COVID
Apr 16 2025 // An insurer erred in denying workers’ compensation benefits to a utility worker who contracted COVID-19 while on the job, a job the state had deemed as “essential” during the pandemic. The insurer had...
#11 Report Describes Final Moments of Plane Crash That Killed Massachusetts Family
May 12 2025 // Federal investigators are outlining the final moments of a plane crash last month in upstate New York that killed a family from Massachusetts heading to the Catskills to celebrate a birthday and the Passover holiday. The...
#12 Massachusetts Hacker to Plead Guilty to PowerSchool Data Breach
May 23 2025 // A Massachusetts man has agreed to plead guilty to hacking cloud-based education software provider PowerSchool and stealing data pertaining to millions of students and teachers that hackers used to extort the company and...
#13 Massachusetts Cuts Red Tape on Insurers, Plus Banks, Contractors, Barbers and More
Jun 3 2025 // Massachusetts is eliminating a series of insurance and other business regulations with a goal of making it easier and less costly to conduct business in the state. According to Gov. Maura Healey, her administration’s...
#14 Bankrupt Steward Health to Close Two Massachusetts Hospitals
Jul 29 2024 // Bankrupt hospital owner Steward Health Care will close two locations in Massachusetts after failing to find a buyer for them, the company said Friday. Steward filed for bankruptcy in May, putting all of its 31 hospitals up...
#15 Massachusetts High Court Orders Workers’ Comp Trust Fund Payments
Jul 3 2025 // In two separate rulings, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has found that an insurer in runoff and the state’s insolvency fund were both wrongly denied certain payments they are entitled from the state’s...
#16 Meta Must Face Massachusetts Social Media Addiction Lawsuit
Oct 21 2024 // Meta Platforms must face a lawsuit by Massachusetts alleging the social media company purposely deployed features on its Instagram platform to addict young users and deceived the public about the dangers it posed to the...
#17 Massachusetts Firm to Pay $11M for Dumping Contaminated Fill in Rhode Island
May 27 2025 // Rhode Island’s top legal chief announced last week that a Massachusetts construction company has agreed to pay $11 million to settle criminal charges that it illegally dumped thousands of tons of contaminated fill in...
#18 Massachusetts Weighs Workers’ Comp Rate Hike to Correct for ‘Excessive’ 2024 Cut
Dec 18 2024 // Massachusetts workers’ compensation insurers have filed for a 7.1% increase in average rates for industrial classes beginning July 1, 2025 — the first rate increase since 2016. Why an increase in 2025? According to...
#19 Bankrupt Steward Health Care Sells Physician Network as Massachusetts Hospital Seized
Aug 19 2024 // Bankrupt hospital operator Steward Health Care received a bankruptcy judge’s approval on Friday to sell its nationwide physician network to a private equity buyer while its stalled efforts to sell Massachusetts...
#20 Diminished Value Not Covered by Standard Auto Policy, Massachusetts High Court Says
Jan 31 2025 // The Massachusetts standard auto policy does not require an insurer to pay inherent diminished value (IDV) to a claimant whose vehicle is damaged by one of its insureds. The Massachusetts Supreme Court in a 6-0 ruling has...
