Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly articles from May 2004

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly archives from May 2004

Fox News talk-show host Bill O'Reilly Speaks at New England School of Law's Law Day Banquet.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff "Short and sweet" are two words rarely associated with Bill O'Reilly, yet that's the message the 6-foot-4, feisty Fox News talk-show host delivered at New England School of Law's recent Law Day...

Massachusetts Superior Court Case Summaries: May 3, 2004.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Attorneys Legal Malpractice - Timeliness - Expert Evidence Where a plaintiff filed suit in 2002 alleging that the defendant attorney committed legal malpractice in connection with her...

U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit Case Summaries: May 3, 2004.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Federal Aviation Act - Private Right Of Action Where a plaintiff sued a defendant airline, claiming that the defendant had defaulted on certain contractual obligations to...

U.S. Magistrate Judges Case Summaries: May 3, 2004.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Education IDEA - Prevailing Party - Administrative Proceeding Where a plaintiff, whose challenge to his proposed Individual Education Plan was resolved in his favor by the Massachusetts...

U.S. Supreme Court Case Summaries: May 3, 2004.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Commercial Truth In Lending Act A credit card company that (1) imposed an "over-limit" fee on a cardholder who exceeded her credit limit but (2) did not include the fee in calculating her...

A Lawyer's View Of The New Boston Municipal Court.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Jason M. Scally The long-running political battles between critics and supporters of the Boston Municipal Court took a dramatic turn last summer when the Legislature rejected Gov. Mitt Romney's attempt to fold the BMC into the...

Expected Competition For Massachusetts Bar Association Officer Positions.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Pundits who can't wait for the presidential election may want to tune in to what could shape up to be a heated run for officer positions at the Massachusetts Bar Association. Traditionally...

Notice Of Public Hearing For Mass. Department Of Revenue.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff THE COMMONWEALTHOF MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Pursuant to the provisions of General Laws Chapter 14, Section 6(1), Chapter 30A, Section 2, and...

Mass. Real Estate Bar Association To Offer National Speaker At Seminar.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Peter Wittenborg, the executive director of the Real Estate Bar Association for Massachusetts says that Charles J. Kovaleski, the keynote speaker for REBA's upcoming Spring Seminar, "has a golf...

Massachusetts Appeals Court Case Summaries: May 3, 2004.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Appeals Judgments Affirmed The Appeals Court has affirmed, pursuant to Rule 1:28, judgments in the following cases. Although the decisions do not appear to address any substantive issues...

Massachusetts Land Court Case Summaries: May 3, 2004.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Real Property Comprehensive Permit - Residential Units Where a defendant zoning board has granted a codefendant landowner a comprehensive permit allowing him to build 20 residential units...

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Case Summaries: May 3, 2004.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Appeals G.L.c. 211, Sect. 3 Petition - Discovery Of Fingerprint Evidence Where a defendant, following his criminal conviction, moved for discovery of certain fingerprint evidence, an order...

Commentary: The Estate Tax: Planning Concerns, Strategies.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Ellen Schiffer Berkowitz and Nancy T. Hegarty In July 2002, the state Legislature enacted changes to Section 2A of Chapter 65C, commonly known as the Massachusetts estate tax. The law applies to decedents dying after Jan. 1, 2003...

Verdicts & Settlements May 3, 2004: Med-mal suit results in $1.65M settlement.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $1.65 Million Settlement The 45-year-old plaintiff's decedent was the mother of one adult child. She went to the emergency room the morning after a night of intermittent right-sided chest...

Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers Admonitions: May 3, 2004.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff SJC No. 2001-064BD IN RE: JOSEPH E. MARINO, JR. SJC No. 2001-064BD IN RE: JOSEPH E. MARINO, JR. Last known address: 12 Flintlocke Road Dedham, MA 02026 Hearing Panel's Findings of Fact,...

Mass. Board Of Overseers Requires Lawyers To Tell Clients If They Don't Have Malpractice Insurance.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The Board of Bar Overseers has proposed a rule that would require lawyers who do not have malpractice insurance to disclose that fact in writing to their clients. The proposal stops short of...

Commentary: The Massachusetts legal world from A to Z.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Dave Yas Grab your teddy bear and your blankies, kids, it's time for a bedtime story so you can learn about the Massachusetts legal system from A to Z. Here we go. A is for Adams, the courthouse of tomorrow. B is for...

Records Were Unrevealing, But Med-Mal Case Settles For $1.1M.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff A recent $1.1 million tort settlement illustrates that a medical-malpractice case can be fruitful even where medical records cannot in and of themselves establish a plaintiff's injuries. In...

Mass. Superior Court Judge Rules Maintenance-Contract Breach Amounted To 93A Violation.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Tony Wright An elevator company's repeated failure to comply with a contract to supply and install a wheelchair lift in the plaintiff's business was a violation of Chapter 93A, a Superior Court judge has held. The defendant...

Mass. Superior Court Judge Rules OUI Suspect May Not Opt For Blood Test.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Lisa K. Bruno The Registry of Motor Vehicles could suspend the driver's license of a drunk-driving suspect who refused to submit to a breath-analysis test -- even though he had agreed to take a blood test, a Superior Court judge...

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court Rules No Life Insurance Claim After Application Fraud.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Jason M. Scally Life-insurance beneficiaries could not receive death benefits where the deceased policyholder had misrepresented his medical condition on an application to reinstate a previously lapsed policy, the Supreme Judicial...

Verdicts & Settlements May 3, 2004: Mass. jury awards blind bookkeeper $50K for hostile workplace.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Defense Verdict A blind bookkeeper alleged she worked in a hostile work environment and received a constructive discharge on account of her handicap. The plaintiff alleged that a significant...

Verdicts & Settlements May 3, 2004: Fired Engineer Claims Handicap Discrimination And Wins $350K.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Defense Verdict The plaintiff engineer who was passed over for promotion and then terminated claimed handicap discrimination based on hearing loss, tinnitus, hyperacusis and depression. ...

Boston Women's Bar Association to diversify.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff With more than a quarter-century of work behind them, members of the Women's Bar Association can look around and grittily declare: We've come a long way, baby. Not that they are going to let...

U.S. District Court Seeks Applications For Criminal Justice Act Panels.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff April 23, 2004 CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT BOARD ANNOUNCES APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR BOSTON, SPRINGFIELD AND WORCESTER CJA PANELS The Federal District Court Criminal Justice Act Board...

Massachusetts District Court Case Summaries: May 3, 2004.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Motor Vehicles Attorney's Fees Where a jury has returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff in a motor vehicle action, the plaintiff should now be awarded counsel fees of $23,287.50 plus...

Massachusetts Environmental Law Case Summaries: May 3, 2004.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Environmental Water Withdrawal Permits - Safe Yield Where (1) 10 communities and water boards in the Ipswich River basin filed an appeal objecting to new and more stringent conditions the...

Verdicts & Settlements May 3, 2004: Truck Runs Over Laborer's Leg Resulting in $825K.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $825,000 Settlement On Nov. 8, 2000, the plaintiff was working as a laborer on a road re-surfacing project on Route 2A in Acton. A truck driver working with the crew was directed to pull...

Verdicts & Settlements May 3, 2004: Trucker Crushed By Trailers Results In $2.5M Settlement.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $2.5 Million Settlement This case arose from a fatal accident in August 2001 in which the plaintiff's decedent, a truck driver, was crushed between two trailers in a busy shipping yard. ...

Q&A With Hampden Probate & Family Court Justice David M. Fuller.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff With the commonwealth facing the impending issuance of same-sex marriage licenses later this month, it's an interesting time to be a Probate & Family Court judge in Massachusetts. But David M....

Mass. Superior Court Judge Rules Firm May Be Sued Over Opinion Letter To Banks.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Jason M. Scally A law firm that sent an opinion letter to banks on behalf of a client looking to borrow money could later be sued over the letter -- which apparently didn't mention a pending lawsuit against the client, a Superior...

Massachusetts lawyer sues court clerk for harassing employee with health problems.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff How does a lawyer handle the delicate task of suing the clerk of courts where he practices? That was the challenge for Edward J. McDonough Jr. of Springfield, who recently convinced a jury to...

U.S. District Court Judge Rules Complainant Is Limited To Bias Settlement In MCAD Case.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Tony Wright A complainant who orally agreed to a settlement reached during proceedings at the MCAD is bound by its terms and cannot pursue a new action in court, a U.S. District Court judge has held. The plaintiff argued that...

U.S. District Court Case Summaries: May 10, 2004.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Oral Settlement Agreement - Dismissal Motion Where municipal defendants have moved to dismiss a plaintiff's complaint, I find that the motion should be allowed because (1)...

U.S. Magistrate Judges Case Summaries: May 10, 2004.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Rights Counsel Fees Where the plaintiffs prevailed in a lawsuit charging the defendant city of Boston and its codefendant police department with having violated the plaintiffs'...

Commentary: Revise The Summons.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The standard form summons, which is issued with all court complaints, is rarely the subject of scrutiny. But it does contain some curious and potentially misleading information and is thus in need...

U.S. Supreme Court Case Summaries: May 10, 2004.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Attorneys Fees - Equal Access To Justice Act A timely filed attorney fee application under the Equal Access to Justice Act may be amended to correct the prevailing party's failure to...

Verdicts & Settlements May 10, 2004: Jury award falls short for woman bitten by dog.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $2,400 Verdict This case arose from a dog-bite incident on Oct. 29, 2001. Ownership of the dog was conceded, and the case was tried to a jury of six on the issue of damages only. The...

Mass. Governor Mitt Romney Signs Bills Into Law.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The following bills have been signed into law by Gov. Mitt Romney. The anticipated effective dates are listed but are subject to change. The full text of statutes may be ordered from Lawyers...

Mass. Gay and Lesbian Bar Association honors Mary L. Bonauto at luncheon.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff At the recent annual dinner of the Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Bar Association, it was no secret as to who the group would honor: Mary L. Bonauto, the Boston lawyer who was lead counsel for the...

U.S. Magistrate Judge Rejects Conspiracy Suit Against Foreign Co.
May 10, 2004... Byline: John O. Cunningham A foreign company could not be sued in the United States where jurisdiction was based on its ownership interest in a domestic company that may have conspired with another foreign company to defraud shareholders,...

Boston and Washington D.C. lawyer Douglas A. Nadeau dies at 63.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Douglas A. Nadeau, a lawyer for Boston and Washington, D.C. firms and a graduate of Princeton, Yale and Harvard universities, died April 23 after a 17-year battle with encephalitis, a viral...

Massachusetts Environmental Case Summaries: May 10, 2004.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Environmental DEP - Supermarket Reconstruction Where petitioners have opposed a superseding order of conditions allowing the reconstruction of a shopping plaza, the project should be...

U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit Case Summaries: May 10, 2004.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Rights Police Officer - Stop Of Vehicle Where a jury returned a verdict in favor of a plaintiff on a claim that a defendant police officer engaged in an unlawful stop of the...

Verdicts & Settlements May 10, 2004: 'Cord' injury blamed on delay between surgeries.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $300,000 Settlement The plaintiff, a 52-year-old woman, had a spontaneous thoracic disc rupture with the onset of leg weakness and numbness. The following morning, she went to the emergency...

Verdicts & Settlements May 10, 2004: Car crash may have exacerbated heart problem.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $220,000 Settlement On Dec. 2, 1998, the defendant made a left turn in front of the plaintiff's decedent's motor vehicle, resulting in a collision. The plaintiff's decedent, who was 47 years...

Verdicts & Settlements May 10, 2004: Elderly man hit by 18-wheeler in parking lot.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $7.7 Million Verdict On April 14, 2003, the 90-year-old plaintiff was walking in the parking lot at Lamberts Rainbow Fruit on Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester, when he was struck by an...

Boston law firm Goulston & Storrs sponsors New Boston Fund CEO in solo sailboat race.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff If the folks over at Goulston & Storrs seem unusually concerned with wind and weather conditions as of late, there's good reason. In between practicing law, the Boston firm is sponsoring one of...

One Boston attorney makes life-work balance his reality.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Joseph Klements had just returned from his son's high school band trip when Lawyers Weekly caught up with him, and was anxious to get to the Back Bay to watch his other son cross the finish line of...

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court Justice not to talk about gay rights at Worcester County Bar Day 2004.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The theme of Worcester County Bar Day 2004 was "To Win Equality by Law." And the guest speaker at the Worcester County Bar Association's luncheon was Supreme Judicial Court Justice Robert J....

Mass. attorney, nurse and pastry chef Kathryn Walsh dies at 51.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Attorney, nurse and pastry chef Kathryn Walsh died recently at her home in Brookline. She was 51. Walsh was born in Fayetteville, N.C. After graduating from the Henry Ford Hospital School of...

Former Suffolk County Assistant District Attorney Joseph A. McDonough dies at 78.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Former Suffolk County Assistant District Attorney Joseph A. McDonough died from abdominal bleeding at Massachusetts General Hospital, according to The Boston Globe. He was 78. McDonough was...

Massachusetts Appeals Court Case Summaries: May 10, 2004.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Appeals Judgments Affirmed The Appeals Court has affirmed, pursuant to Rule 1:28, judgments in the following cases. Although the decisions do not appear to address any substantive issues...

Mass. Land Court Case Summaries: May 10, 2004.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Real Property Life Estate - Misrepresentation - Undue Influence Where a plaintiff seeks to rescind his grant of a life estate to his stepdaughter, that request should be denied in light of...

Commentary: Is anyone out there happy?
May 10, 2004... Byline: Stephen E. Seckler If you believe what you read in the popular and legal press, career satisfaction is woefully lacking for most attorneys. While I encounter a lot of this dissatisfaction in my own coaching and recruiting practice,...

Massachusetts' Bar advocates believe the system is in 'dire straits'.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Tony Wright The state's bar-advocate system -- which relies on the participation of so many sole practitioners and small-firm lawyers -- is in dire straits. Everyone thinks so -- the Committee for Public Counsel Services, bar...

Massachusetts Law Firms Announce Promotions and Honors: May 10, 2004.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff New Associations Garrett J. Lee has joined Parker Scheer in Boston as an associate. Lee, formerly with Posternak, Blankstein & Lund, will continue to concentrate in the areas of civil...

Mass. Judge Lawrence F. Feloney dies at 82.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Judge Lawrence F. Feloney, who sat in Cambridge District Court for almost three decades and was a former legislator, died at Mount Auburn Hospital from respiratory complications, according to The...

Mass. Commission Against Discrimination Case Summaries: May 10, 2004.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Employment Discrimination - Ethnicity - Tenure Where a complainant alleges that the respondent college denied him tenure based on his Palestinian-Arab ethnicity, the complaint must be...

Massachusetts Superior Court Case Summaries: May 10, 2004.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Civil Service Commission - Timeliness Of Complaint Where a plaintiff filed a complaint with the defendant Civil Service Commission challenging the codefendant Department of...

Verdicts & Settlements May 10, 2004: Man suffers ruptured aneurysm following stress test.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $450,000 Settlement The plaintiff's decedent was a 78-year-old man who presented to the hospital with symptoms of nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and back pain. A CT scan of the plaintiff's...

Verdicts & Settlements May 10, 2004: CT scan shows colon perforated during procedure.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $675,000 Settlement The plaintiff, a 45-year-old resident of western Massachusetts, underwent a laparoscopic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (removal of fallopian tubes and ovaries). In the...

Massachusetts' version of Voir Dire may not be so limited.
May 17, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff A recent Massachusetts Bar Association study suggests that the historically limited Massachusetts version of voir dire may not be so limited after all. According to the study, 34 out of 48...

Commentary: An Odd Lawsuit Echoes Through Hallowed Halls.
May 17, 2004... Byline: David Yas If you recall the 1987 film "The Witches of Eastwick," you might remember a scene where the three heroines (strangely glamorous single moms Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfieffer) are trying to stay awake during a...

New Challenges In Elder Law As Baby Boomers Retire.
May 17, 2004... Byline: John O. Cunningham As baby boomers retire and elder law becomes a bigger part of estate-planning practice in Massachusetts, a steady stream of new regulations from the state's Division of Medical Assistance has triggered a flurry...

Mass. Bar Association and Boston Bar Association honored with Kevin Larkin Memorial Award.
May 17, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff When the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association convened its 19th Annual Dinner on April 30, both the Massachusetts Bar Association and the Boston Bar Association were honored with the Kevin...

Mass. Real Estate Bar Association members have an occasional laugh at unauthorized practice of law.
May 17, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff There is nothing that members of the real-estate bar take more seriously than the unauthorized practice of law, but even they occasionally are able to laugh about the otherwise not-so-funny...

Massachusetts District Court Case Summaries: May 17, 2004.
May 17, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Search And Seizure Patfrisk - Firearm Where a defendant was found in possession of a rifle, the evidence must be suppressed because it was discovered as the result of a police patfrisk...

Massachusetts Workers' Compensation Case Summaries: May 17, 2004.
May 17, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Workers' Compensation Further Benefits - Low Back Injury - Medical Findings Where an administrative law judge denied an employee's request for further workers' compensation benefits for an...

Massachusetts Land Court Case Summaries: May 17, 2004.
May 17, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Landlord And Tenant Lease - Validity Where plaintiffs allege that no valid lease exists between them and the defendants, the plaintiffs' argument must be rejected because "by virtue of...

Massachusetts Labor Law Case Summaries: May 17, 2004.
May 17, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Elections Public School - Use Of Mailboxes To Distribute Campaign Letter Where a labor union, without the knowledge or consent of a school district, placed in union members' school...

Verdicts & Settlements May 17, 2004: Auto negligence leads to $836,200 arbitration award.
May 17, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $836,200 Arbitration Award This claim arose from a motor vehicle collision that occurred on Nov. 23, 2001, when the defendant struck the plaintiff as they exited a rotary in Pittsfield. The...

Verdicts and Settlements May 17, 2004: Plaintiffs bring suit against mid-wife and get $5.5M.
May 17, 2004... Byline: Lisa K. Bruno Attorneys who garnered a $5.5 million medical-malpractice settlement on behalf of an infant girl left permanently brain damaged in the course of her delivery say the key to the record result was pitting the two...

Comments Sought On Criminal Case Management.
May 17, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff COMMENT SOUGHT ON PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO SUPERIOR COURT STANDING ORDER 2-86 ENTITLED "CRIMINAL CASE MANAGEMENT" In an effort to comply with the Administrative Office of the Trial Court's...

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court Rules Respondents No Right To Jury After MCAD.
May 17, 2004... Byline: Tony Wright Respondents to claims of bias at the MCAD could not obtain a de novo jury trial in Superior Court following an unfavorable administrative ruling, the Supreme Judicial Court has held. The defendants -- in four cases...

Massachusetts Appeals Court Case Summaries: May 17, 2004.
May 17, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Appeals Judgments Affirmed The Appeals Court has affirmed, pursuant to Rule 1:28, judgments in the following cases. Although the decisions do not appear to address any substantive issues...

Massachusetts Probate Court Case Summaries: May 17, 2004.
May 17, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Wills And Trusts Guardian - Estate Plan Where (1) an elderly woman executed a codicil removing her niece and nephew as beneficiaries under her will and (2) the niece, who is now the...

Massachusetts Superior Court Case Summaries: May 17, 2004.
May 17, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Banks And Banking Money Market Accounts - Interest Where a plaintiff filed suit alleging that the defendant, after acquiring a bank at which the plaintiff held a money market account,...

Verdicts & Settlements May 17, 2004: Employer Gets $3.8M From Third-Party Administrator.
May 17, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $3.8 Million Settlement The plaintiff was a large Massachusetts-based employer with approximately half of its employees in the commonwealth and the balance located throughout the eastern...

Verdicts & Settlements May 17, 2004: Auto negligence results in $2.4M.
May 17, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $2.4 Million Settlement This matter involved claims for negligence, wrongful death and loss of consortium in connection with an accident involving a motorcycle and automobile. The matter was...

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court Seeks Amicus Briefs.
May 17, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT FOR THE COMMONWEALTH ANNOUNCEMENT THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT IS SOLICITING AMICUS BRIEFS OR MEMORANDA FROM INTERESTED PARTIES IN THE FOLLOWING APPEAL PENDING BEFORE THE...

Revised Fee Schedule For U.S. District Court Effective June 1.
May 17, 2004... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff OFFICE OF THE CLERK UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS JOHN JOSEPH MOAKLEYUNITED STATES COURTHOUSE 1 COURTHOUSE WAY - ROOM 2300 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS...

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court Rules Damages In 'Continuing' Handicap Bias Case Are Grounds Bring Suit.
May 17, 2004... Byline: Lisa Bruno A visually impaired worker who claimed that his employer failed to accommodate his handicap could sue under the "continuing violation doctrine" only for acts that occurred within the applicable six-month limitations...

Mass. Superior Court Judge Rules Plaintiff May Sue Under 93A Insurance Co. Due To Delayed Offer.
May 17, 2004... Byline: Jason M. Scally A man who developed an infection after receiving treatment for injuries sustained in a car accident could sue his insurance company for acting in bad faith where the company delayed settlement offers and failed to...