UMass Boston undergrad and Suffolk Law. I suggest UMass Boston.

It’s tough. Some people suck. Nothing is free though and they are paying a price somewhere for their actions. Try to focus on what is good about the job (the hourly rate sounds great) and try t accept and not focus on their greed. there are greedy employers everywhere. If he gets laid off for lack pf work, you can decide what to do then.

It isn’t legal. Most employees are covered by UI, although not all. An oil company would most likely be covered. It doesn’t mean some employers don’t fire people on trumped up claims for collecting. Happens too frequently.

No kidding.

I’m no historian, but I wonder if it’s the Dutch. The New England states were English colonies to a large extent, while New York was originally New Amsterdam. Were the differences cultural rather than geographic?

It is nerve wracking. I deal with lots of car accidents in my business and have for more than 20 years. I’ve been in a couple over the years as well. Every so often when I’m driving it occurs to me how dangerous it actually is, but the anxiety passes. Be well.

You are fine. Make sure to send a copy to your insurer. They just want you to file it in a reasonable time.

That must have been terrifying. Are the bollards at that mall now?

I don’t work here (but I used to) so I have no profit motive in this: Krokidas & Bluestein, Boston. No firm understands non-profits like they do, and there are a lot of spiritually centered people there (Jews and Catholics, I don’t know about Lutherans) who will fully understand what you are trying to do. Honest and super smart lawyers trying to do good work. Won’t be cheap wherever you go, but good advice is worth the price. Be well (and God bless your endeavor).

I don’t remember the name. The owners were excellent, compassionate people and the accident had absolutely nothing to do with the coffee shop, except that she drove into it. She was actually shopping somewhere else. They leased the commercial space from a realty trust which was the true defendant. I can’t recall the name of the coffee shop, just the location.

Porter, in the mall with the supermarket. An elderly woman driving her son’s suv stepped on the gas instead of the brake and drove right into the place.

Bollards. No bollards in front of the store. That mall has millions of dollars in coverage. There is plenty of available insurance. And the Apple Store facade. Is that reasonable to just have a sheet of glass that close to the parking lot intersection? I defended this same case in Cambridge a decade or more ago at a coffee shop. Had to look at 100s of pictures of bollards at mediation with an excellent plaintiff’s attorney. There is loads of available coverage. But you’re correct about the auto limits. The minimums are much too low.

I was suggesting that no one should fall for the “we need prayer in schools” to save our society and everything has gone to hell since we can’t have group prayer in a public place nonsense. We don’t need anything of the sort from the government. You’ll be close to Christ or far from Christ without regard to what the government suppresses or what the government “allows.” Christ himself was subject to one of the most oppressive, “unchristian” regime the world has ever known, and he was able to get his message across. I’m a big fan of Christ, and of a lot of Christian preachers, but this “Christians are suffering persecution in America” is a dangerous lie. But now I’m more intrigued by the number of downvotes. I wonder what people thought I was saying?

Don’t fall for it. We can only individually grow closer to Christ, making the collective whole better if enough of us truly change. It can’t come from the top down and we don’t need society to change in order for us to do so; people grow closer to God in the most unspeakable places under the most perverse tyrants.