Berman & Simmons, the leading personal injury and medical malpractice law firm in Maine, has donated $2,000 to support the Tree Street Youth Centerâs 50 Day, $50K challenge. The firmâs donation puts the organization one step closer to reaching their final renovation goal of $1.3 million....
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Michael Bigos, the Maine lawyer who represented the families of two men killed by a fire in Biddeford, urges municipalities to improve building safety....
A Maine law firm says a New Hampshire nursing home neglected an 84-year-old veteran, leading to his death in 2011. Kindred Healthcare is the defendant....
A Maine law firm has filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the parents of Cassidy Charette, a teenager who died in a haunted hayride crash in 2014....
Maine cities are stepping up efforts to make sure apartment buildings are safe, in response to fires that killed eight people in 2014....
Attorney Michael Bigos of Berman & Simmons spoke with Maine media outlets about fire safety violations and the deaths of Michael Moore and James Ford....
The families of two men killed by an apartment fire in Biddeford, Maine, have reached settlements in their civil lawsuits against the landlord....
Daniel Kagan, an attorney with the Berman & Simmons law firm in Maine, was interviewed by WGME TV for a segment about odometer tampering....
Susan Faunce of Berman & Simmons was interviewed by WGME TV in Maine for a segment about dentists with a history of safety and ethics violations....
Attorney Daniel Kagan tells WGME TV that Volkswagen and other corporations need to be held accountable when they make false claims to consumers....
Berman & Simmons attorney Benjamin Gideon is representing a lobsterman from Harpswell, Maine, in a lawsuit against a woman who crashed into his pickup truck while she was under the influence of alcohol.Gideon filed the suit against Cynthia Moody on behalf of the victim, Samuel Desjardins, recently in Cumberland County Superior Court....
Benjamin Gideon, an attorney with the Berman & Simmons law firm, has filed a notice of claim against the town of Rockport, Maine, for the wrongful death of a 16-year girl during a high-speed police chase last December....
Monica and Randy Charette, the parents of a 17-year-old girl who died during a haunted hayride in the fall of 2014, are disappointed in the findings of a state task force that was assembled to consider possible regulation of vehicles used in farm attractions.The Hayride Safety Stakeholders Group, led by State Fire Marshal Joseph Thomas and Maine State Police Chief Robert Williams, reported to the Legislature that it would not be feasible for the state to regulate farm amusement rides....
Berman & Simmons attorney Benjamin Gideon has filed a lawsuit against two drivers involved in a March 2014 motor vehicle collision that killed a 67-year-old woman in Kennebec County. One of the drivers, 24-year-old Alyssa Marcellino of Winthrop, is serving a prison sentence for her role in the fatal crash....
An attorney with the Berman & Simmons law firm is standing up for the family of a teenager from Rockland, Maine, who was killed in December at the end of a high-speed police chase....
PORTLAND, LEWISTON, and BANGOR, Maine â Berman & Simmons, the largest law firm in Maine dedicated to representing plaintiffs in personal injury and medical malpractice cases, is expanding into a new area of law this year....
Proposed Changes to Summary Judgment and Scheduling Order Rules...
BANGOR, Maine, Jan. 26, 2016 â A jury in northern Maine has awarded $1.8 million to a Millinocket man who nearly died from a heart infection in 2011, eight months after a Bangor hospital failed to share blood test results with his family doctor....
John Pierce, a former millworker from Millinocket, Maine, told a jury on Thursday that although emergency heart surgery saved his life in 2011, he still struggles to do the things he did before his heart was damaged by an undiagnose...