The largest immigrant advocacy group in New England is again pushing lawmakers to support a bill that would allow foreign-born residents living in the country illegally to secure Massachusetts driver’s licenses. Massachusetts law currently requires immigrants seeking a driver’s license …
A tobacco company that had tried to hook black children on cigarettes was ordered to pay $81 million in punitive damages to the estate and son of a Boston woman who started smoking at age 13, in what an attorney …
The family of a woman who was killed in the Big Dig tunnel collapse in Boston has agreed to a $6 million out-of-court settlement with the company that supplied the epoxy blamed for causing 26 tons of concrete ceiling panels …
A jury this week awarded $2.5 million in damages to a woman who received HIV treatments for almost nine years before discovering she never actually had the virus that causes AIDS. In her lawsuit against a doctor who treated her, …
A Massachusetts woman has sued a doctor who treated her after a test wrongly showed she was infected with the virus that causes AIDS. Audrey Serrano says she still has not shaken off the impact of living for years convinced …
A western massachusetts family that claimed author Augusten Burroughs defamed them in his best-selling book “Running with Scissors” has settled a lawsuit against the author and his publisher, according to the family’s attorney. Burroughs and his publisher, St. Martin’s Press, …
A concrete supplier for Boston’s Big Dig tunnel has agreed to pay a $50 million settlement to end civil and criminal investigations into more than 5,000 truckloads of substandard concrete it delivered to the massive highway project, state and federal …
