If your insurer sends a “Reservation of Rights” letter, you can choose your own lawyer (not one assigned by the insurance company) and the insurer… Read More »Reasonable Attorney’s fees When Insurer Issues a Reservation of Rights
Rass and Tulshian developed sauces and sold them to Trader Joes but did nothing to protect their trade secrets. Rass decided to cut Tulshian out… Read More »Sauce Maker’s Insurer Pays for Emails Badmouthing Competitor &/Or Its Sauces
Corporations and LLC’s are considered to be legal individuals, and while people can go to court without a lawyer and represent themselves (pro se), the… Read More »Does a Corporation or LLC Need a Lawyer in Massachusetts’ Courts?
If you sue on bond to get money due on a public works job in Massachusetts and win anything after a trial, you also get… Read More »Attorney’s Fees Shifted by Value of Grader Services Recovery
Self-service modes of business can create risks not present with over-the-counter sales. In a recent Massachusetts case Bowers v Wile’s the top Court found that… Read More »No notice needed under risky mode of business theory
Parties resist settlement agreements and often regret making them. FACTS Parties in a recent Massachusetts case agreed on a settlement number but the agreement was… Read More »Emailed Settlement Agreement Enforced Despite No Time to Pay Term
Frozen pipe property damage claim against insurer governed by statute of limitations – discovery rule doesn’t apply FACTS Building owner learned during a cold December… Read More »Massachusetts Property Damage Claim v Insurer – Not Subject to Discovery Rule
An insurer with enough notice of a claim had to pay the full damage even though the policy holder never turned over suit papers –… Read More »Court Tags Insurer with Entire Judgment Despite Lack of Notice of Suit
Payroll is getting treacherous to administer. In another in the line of worker-friendly payroll decisions, a recent Massachusetts Appeals Court case Vitali v Reit Management… Read More »Cubicle Denizen’s OT Claim for Working Through Lunch OK’ed by Judges
Massachusetts updated its rules for lawyers in March 2014. How would such rules govern Project Counsel on an IPD project engaged to meld the parties… Read More »Project Counsel Governed by 3rd Party Neutral Rules?