Serious personal injury, medical malpractice and/or the wrongful death of a loved one are highly personal family tragedies attended by a level of suffering and a sense of loss no one should have to bear. As a skilled Boston Personal Injury Lawyer, I have the compassion and understanding to remain sensitive to human feelings while providing support, guidance and legal representation of the highest order.

In October of 2006, I opened my own law practice after being a founding partner for 23 years at a larger firm. My goal was to provide competent and caring legal services to individuals who had suffered catastrophic injuries or losses.

To accomplish my mission, I personally meet with every prospective client to assure the client from the very beginning of a relationship of reciprocal comfort and trust. Every significant aspect of the client’s case will be handled directly by me, not some inexperienced associate, to assure that each client receives the benefit of my experience.

It you hire me, your case will be handled by a respected Boston Personal Injury Lawyer with over 27 years of experience who has handled through settlement or trial over 50 major complex damage cases resulting in recoveries of over $30,000,000 dollars.

Medical Malpractice:
My focus includes providing effective, knowledgeable representation for those injured by medical negligence. I have the experience through working with medical experts to be able to determine whether substandard medical practices caused injury. Representative cases include wrongful death and disabling injury in the following areas:

• Failure to diagnose fetal distress in obsterical cases resulting in brain damage, death or other birth trauma
• Mismanagement of labor and delivery with resulting birth trauma to baby and/or mother
• Failure to diagnose conditions such as heart disease, pulmonary emboli and infectious processes resulting in stroke, brain damage or death
• Failure to diagnose breast cancer, cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer, thyroid cancer, colon cancer, and stomach cancer
• Negligent administration and monitoring of patients under anesthesia in obstetrical, day surgery and neurosurgery cases
• Surgical negligence in performance of procedures such as laparoscopies, cardiac catherizations, hernia operations, gall bladder operations, gastric bypass surgery, and microendoscopic disk surgery and sinus surgery
• Orthopedic malpractice, including failures to diagnose or properly repair arm and leg fractures
• Negligent prescription in administering of medications, including psychiatric medications

Through my years of experience, I have developed relationships with doctors, nurses and pharmacologists to enable me to identify and prosecute cases of merit.

Products Liability:
I also have a proven track record representing consumers and workers killed or injured due to defective and dangerous products. I have handled cases against manufacturers of unsafe industrial machinery, motor vehicles, construction equipment and consumer products. Representative cases include the death and injury due to:

• Inadequately guarded industrial machinery such as grinding wheels, vertical milling machines, conveyor belts and systems, and paper sheeters
• Defectively designed automobile components such as gas tanks, transmissions, and general lack of crash worthiness
• Defective after-sale products such as left foot accelerators
• Defectively designed consumer products such as lawn mowers, hot chocolate makers, porcelain sink fixtures and black light bulbs

As a skilled Boston Personal Injury Lawyer, I have substantial experience working with expert engineers and other professionals to be able to identify unsafe products that have contributed to accidental injury or death in the workplace, on the road or in the home. I am committed to providing victims of unsafe product design with access to the judicial system.

General Negligence Matters:
Accidental injury or death can occur in virtually any aspect of day to day living – in the home, at work, while driving on the road, during recreation or in other settings. I have a proven track record in determining whether any injury or death has occurred as the result of negligence and in successfully prosecuting such matters; representative cases include the following:

• Truck accident cases involving major national tractor trailer carriers and garbage trucks
• Railroad crossing fatal accidents
• Recreational and playground accidents caused by negligent construction or maintenance of facilities
• Drownings due to negligent construction of hydroelectric power plant dams
• Drownings due to substandard supervision of recreational school canoe trips
• Slips, trips and falls at malls, stores, office buildings and residences

In addition, I have experience in a number of other areas of law relating to personal injuries, including:

• Auto Accidents
• Premises Liability Cases
• Spinal Cord Injury 
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Burn Injuries
• Dog/Animal Bites
• Insurance Claims
• Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect
• Vehicle Accidents
• Bicycle Accidents
• Motorcycle Accidents
• Train Accidents
• SUV Rollovers
• Wrongful Death

• Obstetrical Negligence / Failure to Detect Fetal Distress / Hypoxic Brain Injury – Settlement: $1,350,000
• Negligent Failure to Institute Prompt Anti-Coagulation Therapy resulting in stroke and brain injury – Settlement:  $850,000
• Negligent Design – Paper Sheeter Machine – Lack of interlocking program to prevent safety sensor override / Comminuted tibeal fractures – Settlement:  $1,125,000
• Negligent Design / Failure to Warn / Disabled Driver Left Foot Accelerator – brain injury to 64-year old man – Settlement: $925,000
• Motor Vehicle / Truck Collision – Aggravation of Pre-Existing Brain Injury – Settlement:  $1,050,000

If you or someone you know in Massachusetts needs the assistance of an experienced Boston Personal Injury Lawyer, call Attorney John Flemming today at 866-723-5460, or complete the contact form provided on this site to schedule your free consultation.