Diverted tips case settled for $7 million 
Published: October 12, 2011
Tags: class action, Massachusetts, tips
Current and former employees of a posh Berkshires, Ma. resort last week reached a combined $7 million settlement to end a class-action lawsuit accusing management of illegally withholding tips due workers.
City settles suit alleging police brutality
Published: September 7, 2011
Tags: civil rights, false arrest, Massachusetts, police brutality
The city of Worcester, Mass. has settled a federal lawsuit brought by a woman who alleged that two city police officers beat and falsely arrested her.
Plaintiff awarded $3.1 million in art suit
Published: August 24, 2011
Tags: art, civil suits, Massachusetts, theft
A Barnstable Superior Court has jury found in favor of the plaintiff in an artwork heist civil lawsuit.
Officer settles civil rights suit alleging excessive force
Published: August 10, 2011
Tags: civil rights, Excessive Force, false arrest, Massachusetts
A Westport, Ma. police officer has settled a civil rights lawsuit filed against him by a man who alleged the officer falsely arrested him and used excessive force last year.
City and former officer sue each other
Published: August 4, 2011
Tags: breach of contract, employment contract, Massachusetts, police officer, training, unpaid overtime
The city of Franklin, Ma. and a former police officer have filed dueling lawsuits.
Gunmaker settles suit for record $600,000
Published: July 27, 2011
Tags: gun, Massachusetts, shooting, wrongful death
A Worcester, Mass. arms manufacturer has agreed to pay nearly $600,000 to the families of two people shot — one of them fatally — by a pistol stolen from the gun plant and sold twice for drugs.
Borrowers sue over apparent loan mod mishaps
Published: July 8, 2011
Tags: Bank of America, foreclosure, loan modification, Massachusetts, mortgage, New York
A spate of lawsuits accuse some of the nation’s biggest banks of disregarding what should be binding agreements to reduce the monthly mortgage payments of troubled borrowers.
Defense team scores big win for cigarette giant
By:
Phillip Bantz
Published: June 17, 2011
Tags: cigarettes, defective design, Massachusetts, Philip Morris, smoking, tobacco, wrongful death
When Stephen C. Haglund proposed to his wife, he flipped open a pack of Marlboro cigarettes to reveal the engagement ring. He thought nothing of trudging through a New England blizzard just to buy smokes. And he kept on puffing even after he was diagnosed with lung cancer.
Man awarded $2.6 million in medical malpractice case
Published: June 17, 2011
Tags: hernia, Massachusetts, medical malpractice
A Worcester Superior Court jury has returned a $2.6 million verdict in a medical malpractice case in connection with a laparoscopic hernia operation in July of 2004.
Judge doubles damages in retaliation case
Published: April 20, 2011
Tags: age discrimination, federal court, Massachusetts, retaliation
A Massachusetts federal court has doubled the damages recently awarded by a jury to a man who was fired from his job after filing an age discrimination claim.
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