Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly articles from August 2006

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly archives from August 2006

The Bernard Baran Saga.(Bernard F. Baran Jr.)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Noah Schaffer June 13th was a momentous day for all of those involved in Commonwealth v. Baran. It was on that particular Tuesday that a Worcester Superior Court judge granted Bernard F. Baran Jr. a new trial. A couple of weeks...

Commentary: From the Publisher.
August 7, 2006... Byline: David Yas Gather 'round, brothers and sisters, and welcome to CLE for the twisted, a look into the depths of Massachusetts law on the weird and the inexplicable. Yes, all of what you hear today will be actual laws enacted by your...

Boston-based Legal Aid Univ. awarded grant.(Emil Gumpert Award)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers reached into New England last month to award to the Boston-based Legal Aid University its annual Emil Gumpert Award, named for the founder of the...

Former MA Superior Court judge to have daytime courtroom TV show.(Massachusetts)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff It is hardly uncommon for an ex-judge to arbitrate cases, but in the case of former Superior Court Judge Maria I. Lopez, the arbitration will be done in a make-believe courtroom with the television...

Boston, Springfield attorneys to represent spouse of Big Dig tunnel collapse.(Angel Del Valle)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Members of the bar may bewondering how a pair of lawyers managed to add Angel Del Valle -- whose wife Milena was killed in the July 10 Big Dig tunnel collapse -- to their client list. "It was...

Newton attorney has a puzzling performance.(B.J. Krintzman)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Newton attorney and crossword-puzzle enthusiast B.J. Krintzman can add another entry to her resume: movie star. The general practitioner attended the March 2005 American Crossword Puzzle...

Chief justices weigh in on judicial evaluations.(Margaret H. Marshall, Robert A. Mulligan)(Letter to the editor)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: We write with regard to Lawyers Weekly's Judicial Evaluation Program, which was launched on July 24. Your survey comes at a time when the commonwealth is fully engaged in...

Judge responds to piece on Business Litigation Session.(Letter to the editor)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: I write regarding the July 17 front-page headline "Can lawyer-client disputes be forced into business session?" The answer is "no." But the article following the headline,...

Big Dig lawyers need to be aware of Section 2B.(Letter to the editor)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: On July 24, a front page story in Lawyers Weekly quoted a lawyer as saying that, with a three-year statute of limitations in a potential Big Dig case, there would be "plenty of...

Governor's Council hearings should be held in various districts.(Letter to the editor)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: Earlier this month, Gov. Mitt Romney nominated C. Jeffrey Kinder of Northampton to the Superior Court to fill the vacancy created by the untimely death of former Judge Thomas...

Commentary: Are small firms that can't afford legal malpractice insurance a public danger?
August 7, 2006... Byline: Edward Poll Centuries ago, Massachusetts lawyers established the fundamental principle of "no taxation without representation." In that same spirit, several years ago the state's lawyers resisted the American Bar Association's...

A business tip from Professor Jay W. Lorsch, Harvard Business School.(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff In this feature, Lawyers Weekly's Noah Schaffer solicits pointers from attorneys, experts and others on various issues relating to the business of law. If you have a business tip to share, e-mail...

Supreme Judicial Court rules workers' internal complaints protected from retaliation.(Winter Place L.L.C.)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Eric T. Berkman Restaurant owners could not retaliate against employees who complained internally that the establishment's tip-pooling policy violated state wage laws, even where the employees never brought their allegations before...

'Super Lawyer' ads not a concern in Massachusetts.(lawyer advertising)
August 7, 2006... Byline: David E. Frank Local ethics experts say that lawyers who advertise in the annual Boston Magazine insert called "Massachusetts Super Lawyers" need not worry about the harsh ruling of an out-of-state ethics committee, which found...

Permitting appeals to be heard at MA Land Court.(Massachusetts)(Law overview)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Noah Schaffer In a move expected to improve the efficiency and consistency of rulings, a reform bill has been enacted requiring all land-use and environmental permitting appeals to be filed in Land Court. The law, which became...

U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals nixes three-month sentence for $5M fraud.(William Thurston, Damon Clinical Laboratories)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Jason M. Scally A lab executive's three-month sentence for Medicare fraud was too lenient in light of the fact that the sentencing guidelines recommended a 60-month sentence for his crime, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has...

Waltham lawyer gets indefinite suspension.(Robert N. Lupo)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The Supreme Judicial Court has found that a Waltham attorney engaged in misconduct involving "clear, personal conflicts of interest with elderly, unsophisticated and vulnerable clients" and should...

Notices from the Courts: August 7, 2006.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff SJC announces registration fee increase on Sept. 1 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS At the Supreme Judicial Court holden at Boston within and for said Commonwealth on the twenty-sixth day of...

Senate Bill 2328 protects both tenants and landlords.(Letter to the editor)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Barbara R. Zimbel Your July 27 editorial ("Anti-bias housing bill goes too far") displays a profound misunderstanding of the reality facing victims of domestic and sexual violence as well as a similar misunderstanding of Senate...

MA Appellate Tax Board Case Summaries: August 7, 2006.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Taxation License suspension - Cigarette retailer Where the appellee Commissioner of Revenue suspended the license of an appellant to sell cigarettes as a retailer under G.L.c. 64C, Sect....

District Court/BMC Appellate Division Case Summaries: August 7, 2006.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Arbitration Credit card Where a defendant holder of a credit card seeks reversal of a District Court order enforcing an arbitration award in favor of the plaintiff issuer of the card, the...

MA Appeals Court Case Summaries: August 7, 2006.(Lebrun v. The Stop and Shop Supermarket Company)(Commonwealth v. Giroux)(Peter J. Carapellucci Jr.)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Appeals Judgments affirmed Lebrun v. The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company (Lawyers Weekly No. 81-661-06) (12 pages) (appeal of a judgment entered for a defendant supermarket company in a...

District Court/BMC Trial Division Case Summaries: August 7, 2006.(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Damages Additur - Pain and suffering Where a plaintiff, having been awarded $3,548.97 in a negligence suit arising out of a traffic accident, now moves for a new trial or, in the...

Department of Industrial Accidents Case Summaries: August 7, 2006.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Workers' compensation G.L.c. 152, Sect. 51A - COLA Where (1) in a workers' compensation case, an administrative judge, applying G.L.c. 152, Sect. 51A, ordered that the claimant's Sect. 31...

MA Labor Relations Commission Case Summaries: August 7, 2006.(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Labor Overtime pay - Prohibited practices Where the city of Boston (1) adopted a 28-day work period to calculate overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act without first bargaining...

MA Land Court Case Summaries: August 7, 2006.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Real property Encroachment - Driveway Where defendants have encroached on the plaintiff abutter's property in a number of ways, the plaintiff should be granted injunctive relief and...

MA Board of Bar Overseers Admonitions Case Summaries: August 7, 2006.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff ADMONITION NO. 06-24 In the fall of 2005, a prospective client applied to a county bar association for legal representation for a bankruptcy. The prospective client's written application for a...

An end to an era, the Armstrong legacy.(Christopher J. Armstrong retires)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Change is good, but it was a bittersweet kind of change when Christopher J. Armstrong retired last month as chief justice of the Appeals Court. Though Armstrong is expected to re-join the court on...

Other MA Agencies Case Summaries: August 7, 2006.(Beverly Retirement Board, Massachusetts)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Retirement Creditable service Where a petitioner served as the elected member of the Beverly Retirement Board after her termination from her membership service job with the city of...

MA Supreme Judicial Court Case Summaries: August 7, 2006.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Attorneys Misconduct - Discipline Where (1) the hearing committee of the Board of Bar Overseers found that a respondent attorney had engaged in conduct characterized as involving "clear,...

MA Superior Court Case Summaries: August 7, 2006.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Arbitration Confirmation - Coercion Where a complaint has been filed to enforce arbitration awards in connection with a $4.8 million settlement agreement, the awards should be confirmed,...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Case Summaries: August 7, 2006.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Student loans - Hardship Where a debtor argues that his student loan obligations should be discharged, this court disagrees, as payment of those loans would not impose an undue...

1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Case Summaries: August 7, 2006.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Conspiracy to defraud Medicare - Sentencing Where (1) a defendant was convicted of conspiring to defraud Medicare of over $5 million, (2) the recommended sentence under the...

U.S. District Court Case Summaries: August 7, 2006.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Automatic stay - LLCs Where the defendant, a Chapter 7 debtor's former business partner, unilaterally realigned the membership interests in limited liability corporations...

MA Lawyers in the News: August 7, 2006.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff New associations Mark E. Young has joined Foley Hoag in Boston as the firm's first chief marketing officer. Jeffrey Scalzi has joined Foley as its marketing director, and Meghan Magner has...

Commentary: 'Beach Road' takes reader on mostly enjoyable ride.(Book review)
August 7, 2006... Byline: Alan S. Pierce "Beach Road"By James Patterson and Peter de JongeLittle, Brown, 2006390 pages; $27.95 As its title suggests, "Beach Road" by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge is perfect summer beach-reading. Patterson,...

Verdicts & Settlements August 7, 2006: Nursing-home resident dies following fall from wheelchair.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $500,000 settlement The 79-year-old plaintiff's decedent fell out of her wheelchair, head first, while going down a ramp at the defendant nursing home where she resided. At the time of...

Verdicts & Settlements August 7, 2006: SWAT team member claims he was fired because of race.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $165,000 verdict The Hispanic plaintiff alleged that he was unfairly disciplined and wrongfully removed from special assignments because of his race and was retaliated against when he filed a...

Verdicts & Settlements August 7, 2006: Woman's breast cancer undiagnosed despite pain complaints.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $250,000 settlement The 49-year-old plaintiff alleged that two radiologists and a surgeon were negligent in diagnosing a lump on her left breast, resulting in a delayed diagnosis of...

Verdicts & Settlements August 7, 2006: Passenger sustains brain injury when car hits telephone pole.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $3.4 million settlement On March 2, 2000, the 20-year-old plaintiff went with three friends to a small bar. Despite the fact that they were minors, the plaintiff and his friends were not asked...

Verdicts & Settlements August 7, 2006: Driver claims back injury following car accident.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Arbitration ruling for respondent A motor vehicle accident occurred on Nov. 29, 2002 in Springfield, and a claim for underinsured motorist benefits resulted. Although liability was not...

Verdicts & Settlements August 7, 2006: Minor's lead poisoning results in cognitive deficits.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $750,000 settlement The minor plaintiff alleged that she suffered lead paint poisoning in a property owned by a trust and managed by a commercial entity, which had insurance coverage for lead...

Verdicts & Settlements August 7, 2006: Newborn sustains hyperbilirubinemia after leaving hospital.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $750,000 settlement The plaintiff was discharged from the hospital 46.5 hours following an uneventful labor and delivery. No appointment was made by either the discharge nurse or pediatrician,...

Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers Admonitions: August 14, 2006.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff SJC No. BD-2006-00026 IN RE: WILLIAM C. SHERIDAN Last known address: 84 Poor Street Andover, MA 01810 Amended order of term suspension entered by Greaney, J., on July 24, 2006 Before...

Commentary: Revisiting the 'practice of law'.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Defining the practice of law may seem a simple task to an attorney, but it is proving to be more elusive than meets the eye. Lawyers in Massachusetts and elsewhere have explored...

Governor Signs Bills.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff 172. An act relative to HIV and Hepatitis C prevention. App. and eff. July 13, 6 pages. 173. An act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2006 to provide funding to promote the...

Registers of deeds across Massachusetts prepare to run for re-election.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Registers of deeds across Massachusetts conclude their current six-year terms at the end of 2006, and only a few of the county seats are being vacated. Records on file at the office of...

Mudslinging takes over Hampden County Superior Court clerk election.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Speaking of elections... Running for clerk of court is usually a tame affair. But this year the battle over who will man the Hampden County Superior Court has become downright personal, with...

Bar-advocate panel's suggestions should be followed.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: I appreciate that Lawyers Weekly has shone the spotlight on the annual tribulations of court-appointed attorneys ("Still a struggle for court-appointed lawyers," July 31). It is...

Investigators, experts also victims of budget crisis.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: The editorial "Still a struggle for court-appointed lawyers" (July 31) fails to mention the struggle of hundreds of investigators and experts who provide defense services to...

ATLA name change proves 'image is everything'.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: A few years ago, Andre Agassi appeared in a popular advertising campaign where he confidently declared: "Image is everything!" Indeed, in America few words could be more...

Yearly funding-crisis 'ritual' causing lawyers 'actual harm'.(Letter to the editor)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: On behalf of the Massachusetts Association of Court Appointed Attorneys, I would like to thank Lawyers Weekly for its continuing coverage of issues impacting the delivery of...

Commentary: How to choose the right bank for your firm.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Edward Poll Not every lawyer can properly represent every client. Just as logically, not every bank is appropriate for every lawyer. Lawyers should look for a bank that can handle the needs of their firms as well as their personal...

Commentary: Information systems from a business perspective.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Rick Trilling In the business world, the systems in a company -- such as accounting and human resources -- are like machines that are set in motion to accomplish tasks necessary to allow that company to get on with its primary...

Superior Court judge says hospital can't be sued for M.D.'s actions.(Louis Erskine Ward sues Dr.Clarence Kylander)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Noah Schaffer A hospital and its corporate parent could not be sued over the actions of a private practitioner who performed an operation at the hospital, a Superior Court judge has decided. The plaintiff, suing over whether...

Bartering drugs for weapons found to be 'use' of firearms.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff A narcotics dealer who bartered heroin for guns "used" firearms in a drug-trafficking crime, making him eligible for a mandatory five-year sentence under federal law, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of...

Appeals Court says improper asset sale not an automatic fiduciary breach.(Kevin O'Brien sues John H. Pearson Jr. )
August 14, 2006... Byline: Eric T. Berkman Majority shareholders in a closely held real-estate corporation did not breach their fiduciary duty to a minority shareholder by selling off the corporate assets, even where their decision was not based on a...

Massachusetts lawyers, judges comment on revised juror questionnaire.
August 14, 2006... Byline: David E. Frank Lawyers have long complained that the state's jury selection process prevents them from making informed decisions on who gets picked to sit on trials. But thanks to a series of recent changes to the juror...

Supreme Judicial Court: Conduct commission doesn't have free rein.(Commission on Judicial Conduct misuses power)
August 14, 2006... Byline: David E. Frank The Supreme Judicial Court has found that the Commission on Judicial Conduct has for years been improperly issuing sanctions against judges by not first seeking its approval. The order -- which some are calling...

If confirmed as Superior Court judge, C. Jeffrey Kinder promises to help slash case backlog.(Massachusetts. Superior Court)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff If confirmed as a Superior Court judge, C. Jeffrey Kinder of Northampton told the Governor's Council last week that his "strong work ethic" would help clear a "crisis" backlog in western...

Renovation funding for Cambridge courthouse hits snag.(Edward J. Sullivan Courthouse )(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Funding for the $130 million renovation of the Edward J. Sullivan Courthouse in Cambridge has been held up, as a bond bill was not passed by the Legislature before the end of its formal session...

Notices from the Courts: August 14, 2006.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Probate Judge Roberts to sit in Plymouth PLYMOUTH PROBATE AND FAMILY COURT TO: Interested Parties FROM: First Justice Catherine P. Sabaitis, Register Robert E. McCarthy RE:...

The stats are in on Massachusetts' appellate chiefs.(never a appellate court chief being appointed at Supreme Court from Massachusetts)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Sander A. Rikleen The retirement of Appeals Court Chief Justice Christopher J. Armstrong, and nomination of Justice Phillip Rapoza as his successor, provides an occasion for reflection on those who have served the commonwealth as...

Appellate Tax Board Case Summaries: August 14, 2006.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Taxation Penalty tax Where the appellee Carlisle board of assessors refused to abate a withdrawal penalty tax which was imposed on the appellants for the 10-year period from fiscal year...

District Court/BMC Appellate Division Case Summaries: August 14, 2006.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Appeals Requests for rulings of law Where a plaintiff attorney has appealed claiming that she should have been awarded a larger amount of fees for services rendered to a defendant...

Appeals Court Case Summaries: August 14, 2006.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Appeals Judgments affirmed Commonwealth v. Carlo (and five companion cases) (Lawyers Weekly No. 81-666-06) (6 pages) (appeals of convictions for distribution of cocaine (second offense)...

District Court/BMC Trial Division Case Summaries: August 14, 2006.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Negligence Fall on stairs Where a plaintiff tenant has filed a negligence suit against a defendant landlord after suffering injuries from a fall in a stairwell, I find that judgment...

Department of Industrial Accidents Case Summaries: August 14, 2006.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Workers' compensation Hypothetical - Myocardial infarction Where a judge awarded benefits for a work-related myocardial infarction, a recommittal must be ordered based on an incorrect...

Labor Relations Commission Case Summaries: August 14, 2006.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Labor Unit clarification petition - Administrative assistant position Where a union local is seeking to accrete into its existing bargaining unit of clerical and technical employees at a...

Land Court Case Summaries: August 14, 2006.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Real property Mortgage Where a plaintiff has filed suit seeking to invalidate a mortgage on his property, I find that his complaint must be dismissed in light of his failure to present...

Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination Case Summaries: August 14, 2006.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Employment Sexual harassment Where a complainant charges the respondent employer with sexual harassment, the complaint must be dismissed because the evidence does not support the...

Beverly Retirement Board member entitled to creditable service for time.(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Retirement Creditable service Where a petitioner served as the elected member of the Beverly Retirement Board after her termination from her membership service job with the city of...

Supreme Judicial Court Case Summaries: August 14, 2006.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Appeals G.L.c. 211, Sect. 3 petition Where a plaintiff sought relief under G.L.c. 211, Sect. 3 from an Appeals Court decision ordering the entry of judgment for the defendant on the...

Superior Court Case Summaries: August 14, 2006.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Employment Layoff - Claim preclusion Where a plaintiff laid-off court employee and his coplaintiff wife have filed a number of counts against several individual defendants in their...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Case Summaries: August 14, 2006.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Home improvement contractor - Misrepresentation Where plaintiffs assert that their claim for damages arising from the defendant debtor's alleged breach of a home improvement...

1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Case Summaries: August 14, 2006.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil practice Dismissal - Deadlines Where a medical malpractice complaint was dismissed as a sanction, the judge committed no abuse of discretion in light of the plaintiff's repeated...

U.S. District Court Case Summaries: August 14, 2006.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Drug possession - Sentencing guidelines Where a jury has convicted a defendant of drug possession, he should be sentenced to two years in prison. "After full consideration of...

Massachusetts Lawyers in the News: August 14, 2006.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff New associations Diane M. Power has joined the Worcester office of Mirick O'Connell as the firm's executive director. Promotions Sheila C. Casey has been named the executive director...

Verdicts & Settlements August 14, 2006: Metal worker tears rotator cuff while moving equipment.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $550,000 settlement The 52-year-old plaintiff sheet metal worker was struck and knocked over by a piece of duct work, which had been caught by the wind, and sustained a shoulder injury. ...

Verdicts & Settlements August 14, 2006: Landlord sues printing co. for failure to pay rent.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $41,895 verdict The plaintiff rented commercial space to the defendant printing company which defaulted on the lease by failing to pay rent. The plaintiff obtained a default judgment...

Verdicts & Settlements August 14, 2006: Man claims freeze-out from business he formed.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $675,000 settlement The plaintiff brought action claiming corporate freeze-out from a business that the he had helped to form. The defendants acknowledged that the plaintiff had been...

Verdicts & Settlements August 14, 2006: Live-in daughter disputes father's sale of property.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Defense judgment The defendant father was sued by his plaintiff daughter over alleged promises to give the daughter money upon the sale of the house in which she and her father had been...

Verdicts & Settlements August 14, 2006: Patient's undiagnosed fracture leaves her unable to walk.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $2.55 million settlement The plaintiff arrived at the emergency room with full cervical restraints after her air bag deployed when her vehicle struck a tree, but she was discharged after the...

Verdicts & Settlements August 14, 2006: Newborn gets hyperbilirubinemia after leaving hospital.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $750,000 settlement The plaintiff was discharged from the hospital 46.5 hours following an uneventful labor and delivery. No appointment was made by either the discharge nurse or pediatrician,...