SOCIAL HOST LIABILITY – PART TWO This is part Two of a two part blogpost, in which Boston Personal Injury Lawyer, the attorney, analyzes liability issues in the recent drowning death in Andover, Massachusetts. It now appears that a parent was present in the Andover home where an overnight teenage party…
SOCIAL HOST LIABILITY, PART ONE This is part One of a two part blogpost, in which Boston Personal Injury Lawyer, the attorney, analyzes liability issues in the recent drowning death in Andover, Massachusetts. In the early morning of February 16, 2009, sixteen year old Concord Academy student, Elizabeth Mun, was…
A severe fire related accident occurred as the new year struck in Freedom, NH. The location was a lakeside private home owned by one of the group, all recent graduates from Holy Cross College. The group was outside celebrating and had a bonfire going on an old grill. It appears…
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has determined that the Workers’ Compensation Trust Fund must pay benefits to an employee of a tree cutting company who failed to obtained workers’ compensation insurance based on the employee’s total earnings, including wages earned from a second job with an insured employer. The thirty-three…
WEST LAKE ACADEMY v. THE TRAVELERS INDEMNITY COMPANY et al. U.S. Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit, Nos. 07-2190, 07-2204 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has upheld a decision of the District Court that an general commercial insurance policy issued to a mental health care provider did…
COMMERCE INSURANCE COMPANY vs. ULTIMATE LIVERY SERVICE, INC.SJC-10149, November 26, 2008. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that Boston Accident Victims of a two car collision could sue a livery service whose driver permitted an intoxicated customer to exit its van after a long night of partying and drinking,…
SAAB vs. MASSACHUSETTS CVS PHARMACY, LLC SJC-10193, November 13, 2008 The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has affirmed a judgment of dismissal of a claim by the parents of a deceased CVS employee, who died from injuries suffered when he was stabbed with a knife while trying to apprehend a shoplifter.…