Personal Injury

Halstrom Law Offices, P.C. handles all types of personal injury cases, including but not limited to: automobile and motorcycle accidents, bicycle accidents, birth trauma/injury, medical malpractice/negligence, nursing home abuse and negligence, products liability, slip and fall injuries, worker's compensation claim related injuries, and wrongful birth/death claims as well as general personal injury. Our "of counsel" attorneys specialize in criminal defense and employment law. If you or your loved ones have been injured, we have the expertise to provide you with the legal representation you deserve.

MA, Nov 1970
Bar Number: 218420

• U.S. Court of Appeals 1st and 11th Circuits
• U.S. Tax Court
• U.S. District Court Districts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island
• Massachusetts Superior and State District Court
• Massachusetts Appeals Court
• Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

• Leaders Forum Member and on the Board of Governors for the American • Association for Justice (previously American Trial Lawyers Association)
• Executive Committee and Board of Governors Member of the Massachusetts • Academy of Trial Attorneys
• Massachusetts Bar Association
• Delegate for the Pan-European Organization of Personal Injury Attorneys
• New Hampshire Trial Lawyers Association
• Arizona Trial Lawyers Association
• Iowa Association for Justice (previously Iowa Trial Lawyers Association

Each year I easily exceed the number of legal continuing education hours required by the Massachusetts Bar. I attend legal conferences annually with both the American Association for Justice and the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, in addition to day seminars which are offered by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education.

In June 2010, I attended the Annual Delegation of the Pan-European Organization of Personal Injury Lawyers in Geneva, Switzerland where interesting topics included how different countries handle medical malpractice cases. Furthermore, I attend, when my schedule permits, the Boston University Genetics and Obstetrics/Gynecology Annual Convention where I receive a unique view of how doctors throughout the country respond to malpractice incidences. This conference has enabled me to make some truly beneficial relationships with expert doctors throughout the country who are willing to work on behalf of a medical malpractice plaintiff.

"Attorney Conducted Voir Dire Is Coming in This Century" Boston Bar Journal.

"Proving Partial Loss of Earning Capacity: A Common Sense Aid" Trial Magazine, October 1995.

"Schedule for Rating Disabilities in Civil Tort Litigation" Position Paper in Support of 38 C.F.R. 4p.60 Journal of Massachusetts Academy of Trial Lawyers, July 1994.

"Arguing Damages to a Jury in a Personal Injury Action and the Need for Massachusetts to Get in Line with Other States," Co-Author: Journal of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Lawyers, October 1994.

"Docket Call Section of General Practice, Products Liability ? Repase & Market Share Liability," American Bar Association, 1981.

"Taking the Stand ? Products Liability is Out of Uniform," 2 The Complete Lawyer15, 1985.

"Consumer Injustice - Proposed Federalization of Products Liability Law," Journal of Massachusetts Academy of Trial Lawyers.

"Collateral Source Income Rule and the Corsetti Decision," 185 Annual Survey of Massachusetts Law p.1.

5. Hanks, et al. v. Klein, MD, et al. WOCV2003-02240A
Failure to properly manage labor and delivery ? prolonged fetal distress resulting in brain damage. This case was against five labor and delivery nurses, two Board Certified obstetricians, and one second year obstetrical resident who failed to notice fetal distress over the course of more than 12 hours, and failed to order a timely emergency c-section. This case was settled one week before trial was set to begin for $6,000,000. This is the largest settlement recorded in Massachusetts.

Gath, et al. v. M/A-COM, et al. MICB1998-6221
Traumatic Brain Injury caused by a faulty gate. This case results from an unlatched gate swinging out into the road and striking Mr. Gath resulting in permanent brain injury. A jury awarded Mr. Gath $14.2 million plus interest (~$24million), which was upheld by the SJC and collected by Mr. Gath. In 2010 dollars, an equivalent award would be more than $28million. This is the largest amount ever collected by an individual in Massachusetts.