Mass corporation liable for unauthorized guarantee due to shoddy corporate paperwork and inaction after learning. People’s United Bank v B&B Fire Protection Inc. Mass App… Read More »Lack of Respect for Corporate Formalities Puts Company on the Hook for Guarantee
Five-year litigation over $16,000 ends with upholding of triple damages and attorney’s fees award. For most kinds of cases, attorneys’ fees are not a part… Read More »Bad Faith Refusal to Return Security Deposit Costs Commercial Landlord
Only the wrongful actions of agents at senior levels of corporations will be imputed to the corporation for purposes of the rule that any recovery… Read More »Corporate Agent Wrongdoing – How Far Up the Chain Does Responsibility for Intentional Acts Climb?
Debt collection cases take up most of the civil case time in District Courts and Small Claims courts in Massachusetts. In a 2018 case, consumers… Read More »Debt Collector License Rules Don’t Reach Passive Debt Buyers Who Use Licensed Agents To Sue Consumers
Employers need to protect company data from insider misuse Massachusetts Appeals Court decided a case involving an insurance agency employee who used her work… Read More »Employer Liability – Worker Uses Company Data Access – Customer Gets Threats
The loss of personal data creates many problems for those responsible to protect it. The Connecticut Supreme Court decided – insurance does not have to… Read More »No GL coverage if no one uses personal data on tapes lost falling off a truck
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
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
When someone gets hurt at work, the employer’s workers compensation automatically pays medical costs and a large fraction of lost wages – no matter whose… Read More »Workers Keep Pain and Suffering 3rd Party Payout Workers Comp Gets None