Somerset occupies a peninsula on the west bank of the Taunton River, and nearly everything that moves through town — commuters, commercial trucks, bridge traffic bound for Fall River — moves along a handful of corridors: Route 6, Route 138, and Route 103, feeding the Braga Bridge and the Veterans Memorial Bridge. When a crash, a fall, or a workplace injury happens here, Shea Culgin Law steps in. Robert Shea and Joseph Culgin bring more than 20 years of personal injury and workers’ compensation experience, and while our office sits at 1350 Belmont Street, Suite 109, Brockton, MA 02301 — about 45 minutes away by Route 24 — the courts that decide Somerset cases are courts where we already practice. Consultations are free, and we handle Somerset matters by phone, by video, and in person.
A Riverfront Town Defined by Its Bridges
Two of southeastern Massachusetts’ busiest river crossings begin or end in Somerset. I-195 and Route 138 cross the Taunton River into Fall River on the Braga Bridge, while Route 6 crosses on the Veterans Memorial Bridge — and the approaches to both funnel heavy regional traffic through Somerset’s local streets. Route 138 (County Street) runs the length of the town as its north-south spine, and the Route 6 commercial strip (GAR Highway) mixes through-traffic with turning cars at business driveways. On the southern tip sits Brayton Point, the former coal-fired power station site whose redevelopment has kept industrial and demolition activity churning since the plant closed in 2017.
We represent Somerset residents and workers in car accident claims, personal injury matters, and workers’ compensation cases.
The Courts That Decide Somerset Cases
District-level civil cases arising in Somerset are heard at Fall River District Court — per the Commonwealth’s court directory, the court serving Somerset — located in the Fall River Justice Center at 186 South Main Street, just over the Braga Bridge. Larger civil suits go to the Bristol County Superior Court, which holds a session in the same Justice Center. Workers’ compensation disputes are decided by the Department of Industrial Accidents, whose Fall River regional office at 1 Father DeValles Boulevard is minutes from Somerset. We appear regularly in all three forums, which means a Somerset case never requires us to learn a new courthouse.
Somerset Practice Pages
- Somerset Car Accident Lawyer — Route 6, Route 138, Route 103, and bridge-approach collisions.
- Somerset Personal Injury Lawyer — premises liability, dog bites, wrongful death, and more.
- Somerset Workers’ Compensation Lawyer — every Somerset workplace injury, plus the Fall River-area jobs Somerset residents commute to.
Somerset FAQ
Your office is in Brockton. Why hire you for a Somerset case?
Because Somerset cases aren’t decided in Somerset — they’re decided at the Fall River Justice Center and the DIA’s Fall River office, where we already litigate. The drive between our office and yours matters far less than experience in the forums that control your outcome, and we handle most communication by phone and electronically anyway.
I was hurt during demolition or construction work at the Brayton Point site. What are my options?
If you were working, you have a workers’ compensation claim regardless of fault — and if a company other than your employer contributed to the injury, potentially a third-party negligence suit on top of it. Multi-contractor industrial sites are exactly where those layered claims arise.
How much will a consultation cost me?
Nothing. The consultation is free, injury cases are handled on contingency, and in most successful contested workers’ comp claims the insurer pays the attorney’s fee.
Talk to a Somerset Injury Lawyer
Call Shea Culgin Law at 508-510-5107 for injury claims or 617-674-0408 for workers’ compensation. Free consultation — no fee unless we recover.
