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The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act changes the law surrounding retirement plans in several important ways: • Stretch IRAS. The biggest change eliminates “stretch” IRAs. Under the previous law, if you named anyone other than a spouse...
The impact of the current pandemic on businesses and non-profit organizations is unprecedented. The government response to the crisis is constantly evolving as it works to address the health and safety of individuals and preserve the strength of our businesses and...
Perhaps you were injured while commuting to Boston, and you found out that the other driver was distracted. Any number of things, from billboards to phones, can become a distraction, but many drivers in Massachusetts would not think that driver-assist tech can be...
Quick reactions are essential to safe driving in Massachusetts. Thus, one of the greatest dangers with distractions, whether they come from one's phone or from a conversation with a passenger, is that they slow down this reaction time and raise the risk for a crash....
In Massachusetts, many people think that a divorce is largely settled once the two parties agree on major issues such as property division and custody. However, there are many more details that are left to be decided that can present challenges when trying to finalize...
Medical misdiagnosis can have a serious impact on people's health, but thousands of people in Massachusetts continue to be affected every year. Across the country, around 12 million people deal with some type of misdiagnosis or other diagnostic error annually. In many...
Distracted driving crashes killed 3,166 people in Massachusetts and across the U.S. in 2017. While there are safety systems that can respond to distracted behavior in drivers, their effect is being counteracted by other tech. Semi-autonomous cars are, in fact,...
The concept of parental alienation emerged in the 1980s after a child psychiatrist proposed that most abuse allegations in child custody cases were lies told by mothers hoping to deny custody to fathers. Although critics have noted that the psychiatrist's claims...
Many truck drivers in Massachusetts and across the U.S. rely on coffee, energy drinks and other caffeinated products to stay awake throughout the day. This can have long-term consequences and even raise truckers' risk for an accident. A recent study, the results of...
Most medication errors are preventable, yet every year, some 7 million people in Massachusetts and the rest of the U.S. fall victim to them. Worldwide, these errors are responsible for 2% to 5% of all hospital admissions. Thirty percent of those patients who are...