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Financial support for Marathon
bombing victims
"You've got to be comatose, you've got to be
hospitalized and that's not what brain injury is all about. It's
beyond me that she [Joanna Leigh] isn't getting help right
now."
MBA President Douglas K.
Sheff, New England Cable News (NECN), April
1
Both Sheff and MBA Chief Operating Officer and Chief Legal
Counsel Martin W. Healy were interviewed by NECN as part of a story
on Boston Marathon bombing victims still seeking One Fund
assistance. Included was Bill Iffrig, a 79-year-old retired paper
mill worker, who was captured falling to the ground near the finish
line in an iconic photograph. Iffrig suffered tendon damage in his
leg and needed hearing aids for a shattered eardrum. He has yet to
receive financial assistance from the One Fund. "It's undisputable
that he's been injured, it's undisputable that he was there and it
really says something about the administration of the fund at this
point that they're not coming forward and compensating folks who
aren't looking for a lot of money that have very demonstrable
injuries," Healy told NECN. Joanna Leigh, a Boston financial
consultant who suffered a brain injury during the bombings, did not
receive the full payout for victims with permanent brain damage as
described in the initial distribution process.
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Justina Pelletier custody
case
"Obviously there's something there that we all
don't know about. We don't have all the facts. … Judge Johnston's
job is to keep that child safe."
MBA President-elect Marsha V.
Kazarosian, New England Talk Network/Boston Herald
Radio, March 28
Kazarosian shared her legal insight on the Justina Pelletier
custody case as a featured guest on "The Natural Truth" radio show
hosted by Michael Graham. Juvenile Court Judge Joseph Johnston
awarded the State Department of Children and Families (DCF)
permanent custody of 15-year-old Justina in a March 25 ruling.
Kazarosian also applauded Judge Johnston's decision on her weekly
appearance on the FOX25 Morning News. "He is doing his utmost
best to work out something with Connecticut and the parents to get
this child back on track," she said. On FOX25 Kazarosian also
discussed the report issued on the killing of Ibragim Todashev in
Florida and the custody agreement reached in the Jared Remy
case.
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