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6 days ago |
law.com | Marianna Wharry
A New York-based engineering firm is still on the hook for a negligence claim over an allegedly faulty athletic field design at Boston University because the action was purely contractual and not barred by state law, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held this week. On Wednesday, the seven-judge panel for the state's high court reversed a summary judgment order previously awarded to the consulting and engineering firm Clough, Harbour & Associates.
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1 week ago |
law.com | Marianna Wharry
A Massachusetts jury awarded a woman over $1.38 million last week for injuries sustained in a 2022 car crash while delivering newspapers. Morgan & Morgan attorneys Chase Marshall, Dillon Brozyna, and Ryan Lang represented Lowell resident Melody Allen, 64, in a personal injury suit filed in Middlesex County Superior Court. In October 2022, Allen was helping her husband on his newspaper delivery route.
Judge Rescinds $100K Jury Award for Employee's Emotional Distress Claims, Large Payout Still Looming
1 week ago |
law.com | Marianna Wharry
An Illinois federal judge Thursday rescinded a $100,000 compensatory damages award in favor of a former U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs employee after determining his trial testimony did not include direct evidence of emotional distress or detail how his termination impacted his emotional state. U.S. District Judge Rebecca R.
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1 week ago |
law.com | Marianna Wharry
The Illinois Supreme Court has been asked to decide whether an insurance company has to defend and indemnify two companies in an underlying industrial pollutant suit and how state regulations play a role in a policy’s pollution exclusion, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit's ruling Friday. U.S. Circuit Judge Michael Y.
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1 week ago |
law.com | Marianna Wharry
An insurance company and an Illinois man's dispute over how an insured "uses" a vehicle will return to the lower court and could be a case of first impression, the state's appellate court said this week.
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