Massachusetts Lawyer

Massachusetts Special Needs and Disability Attorney Neal A. Winston is a partner of Moschella & Winston, LLP, (www.moschellawinston.com) a law firm specializing in estate and disability planning and asset protection. Practicing public benefits law for over 30 years, in 1975, Attorney Winston wrote the first edition of the Social Security Manual for the Community Worker. A nationally recognized expert on Special Needs Trusts and needs-based public benefit programs, he is frequently requested to lecture and train other attorneys and professionals that work in this field. An active client-oriented attorney, he has represented hundreds of claimants before state and federal courts and agencies. He has also been named a Super Lawyer in Boston Magazine since 2006. Attorney Winston is president of the Special Needs Alliance, a national, nonprofit organization composed of attorneys who advise and represent individuals and their families to create and administer Special Needs Trusts. He is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA) and has been certified as an Elder Law Attorney by the National Elder Law Foundation. He serves on the public policy committee of NAELA and is a member of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives and the American Bar Association Social Security Committee. Attorney Winston is a member of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys and the American Association of Justice, and he is past president of the …

The FDA has announced warnings regarding transvaginal mesh (vaginal mesh) products, which are used to treat pelvic organ prolapse and urinary stress incontinence. Boston Massachusetts product liability lawyer David White, from the firm Breakstone, White & Gluck, discusses the complications which have been identified. Injuries include tissue erosion, bleeding, painful intercourse, infection, severe pain, and the need for further surgical procedures. The FDA has stated that there is no improvement in outcome for the use of the surgical mesh, and that complication are not rare. Contact an experience product liability lawyer if you have been injured by a transvaginal surgical mesh.