Jeffrey Glassman Injury Lawyers

Focus and practice areas

The firm works in three fields of law: personal injury, workers' compensation, and Social Security disability. It represents clients across Massachusetts. The website groups these services on its home and contact pages, so a visitor sees the full scope early.

Personal injury is the widest of the three fields. The site lists claims from car, truck, motorcycle, bicycle, and pedestrian accidents. It also covers slip-and-fall claims, medical malpractice, wrongful death, dog bites, nursing home injuries, product liability, defective medical devices, construction accidents, mesothelioma, and toxic tort matters. That range covers most of the ways one person's injury leads to a claim against another party.

The list of accident types points to a general injury practice. A firm that names car, truck, and motorcycle crashes alongside bicycle and pedestrian claims is set up to take road cases of most kinds. The inclusion of mesothelioma and toxic tort work shows the firm also handles slower harm, where exposure and illness appear years apart.

The range of road and accident claims

Road crashes make up a large share of the injury types the firm names. A car accident claim in Massachusetts often starts within the state's no-fault insurance system, where a driver's own policy covers early medical bills up to a set limit. Claims that pass that limit, or involve serious injury, can move against the driver at fault.

Insurers handle most injury claims on the other side. An adjuster reviews the file, checks coverage, and decides what the company will offer. A lawyer's job is to press for a figure that matches the medical bills, lost wages, and lasting effects a client faces.

Truck, motorcycle, and pedestrian cases

Truck cases add a layer that car cases usually lack. A commercial carrier answers to federal safety rules, and a single crash can involve the driver, the trucking company, and more than one insurer. Working out who is responsible is often the first task in such a claim.

Motorcycle and bicycle claims raise their own questions. Riders carry a higher risk of serious injury, and disputes often center on right of way and whether the other driver saw the rider in time. Pedestrian claims follow a similar pattern. Fault often turns on signals, crossings, and speed.

Falls and work-site injuries

Some of the injuries the firm names happen on foot or on a work site. Slip-and-fall and construction accident claims turn on the condition of a property and who controlled it. A property owner or a contractor may answer for a hazard that causes a fall, and these cases often rest on photographs, maintenance records, and witness accounts.

How the team is built

The attorneys page lists 21 lawyers. Their titles include Director, Partner, Associate, Of Counsel, and Personal Injury Attorney. Jeffrey S. Glassman carries the Personal Injury Attorney title and gives the firm its name.

The named partners include Robert T. Naumes, Jr. and Michelle Hodgman. Michael D'Isola holds the Director title, and Andrew Fischer is listed as Of Counsel. The associates named on the page include J. Morgan Hargrove, Ryan Monaco, Julie Lamkin, Laura Kiley, Sarah Santiano, Marion Moniz, and Nicole Avitabile.

Titles and structure

In my opinion, a firm that publishes each lawyer's name and title makes it simpler for a client to learn who would handle their case. The mix of partners, associates, and of counsel suggests that files pass between senior and junior lawyers. A team of this size lets the firm spread its personal injury, workers' compensation, and disability work among different hands.

The page pairs each name with a title, so a visitor can see the firm's structure at a glance. Directors and partners sit at the top, associates carry much of the day-to-day work, and of counsel lawyers bring added experience to specific files. That shape is standard for an injury firm of this size.

Jeffrey S. Glassman is the lawyer whose name the firm carries. His title on the page is Personal Injury Attorney, which lines up with the firm's main area of work. The other listed lawyers fill out the practice around that focus.

Where the firm operates

The main office is in Boston. The contact page lists further offices across Massachusetts and one in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. That footprint puts the firm within reach of clients in the Boston area and near the Massachusetts and Rhode Island border.

The home page states that the firm has served clients for more than 30 years. The site does not list an exact founding year. As a reviewer, I treat a stated record of that length as a marker of continuity. It shows the firm has operated across three decades of change in Massachusetts injury and workers' compensation law.

Offices in more than one location can matter in injury work. A client recovering from a crash may find it easier to meet a lawyer closer to home. The Woonsocket office also places the firm near the Rhode Island line, where some clients live or were hurt.

Close to the Massachusetts courts

Boston is home to a large part of the Massachusetts court system, and the state's trial and appeals courts sit nearby. A firm with its main office in the city works close to the courts where injury and malpractice cases are heard. For a client whose case reaches litigation, that nearness can cut travel on hearing days.

What personal injury and malpractice cases involve

Personal injury cases in Massachusetts usually begin with a claim against an insurer. A car or truck accident file often turns on police reports, medical records, and the account each driver gives. Where the two sides cannot agree on fault or payment, the matter can proceed to a lawsuit and, in some cases, a trial.

Most injury claims begin with the same early steps. A lawyer gathers medical records and documents lost income, then contacts the insurer for the client. What happens next depends on how the insurer responds and how serious the injury turns out to be.

Time limits shape every one of these claims. Massachusetts sets deadlines for filing injury and malpractice suits, and missing one can end a case before it starts. An early call to a lawyer gives a client room to gather records while the deadline is still far off.

Malpractice, wrongful death, and toxic claims

Medical malpractice claims follow a separate track. In Massachusetts, such claims go before a medical malpractice tribunal that weighs whether the evidence raises a legitimate question of negligence. Claims tied to mesothelioma or other toxic exposure often depend on expert testimony about the source and timing of the harm. The firm names all of these among its practice areas.

Wrongful death and nursing home claims fall to the same team. A wrongful death case is brought by the estate of the person who died, and it seeks to recover for the loss to surviving family. Nursing home and product liability claims each carry their own rules on proof and time limits. The firm lists all of them, which shows it takes on harder as well as routine files.

Workers' compensation and disability work

Workers' compensation runs on a state system apart from injury lawsuits. A worker hurt on the job files for wage replacement and medical costs, and disputes go before the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents. The firm lists this work next to its injury practice.

Social Security disability follows a federal process. An applicant files with the Social Security Administration, and a denied claim can move to a hearing before an administrative law judge. A firm that handles injury, workers' compensation, and disability under one roof can help a client whose single accident raises more than one kind of claim.

These three services often overlap in a single client's life. A serious workplace injury can support a workers' compensation claim, a personal injury case against a third party, and a disability application at the same time. The firm lists all three together on its website.