5 minutes with … Amy Peltier
- Founded in 2008 and based in San Marino, California, Peltier Interiors has grown under founder Amy Peltier‘s direction into a nationally recognized, full-service ...More

Judge: jury award for sales rep’s lost commissions ‘grossly excessive’
PROVIDENCE, RI - [box type="shadow"] Highlights: A Superior Court judge reduced a sales consultancy’s $2.2 million jury award to $979,318 after finding the damages calculation ...More

Attorneys – Informal assistance – ‘Ghostwriting’
PROVIDENCE, RI - Where an attorney has rendered informal assistance to a friend who was named as a defendant in a personal injury action, the attorney’s assistance to the friend ...More

Workers’ compensation – IME – Expert opinions
PROVIDENCE, RI - Where an orthopedic physician who performed an impartial medical examination opined that an employee was disabled from his regular job duties as a welder, an award ...More

Search and seizure – Drug trafficking – Confidential source
PROVIDENCE, RI - Where a motion to suppress has been filed by two defendants after they were arrested by federal agents who then searched the vehicle they had arrived in, their ...More

Social services – Disability – VE
PROVIDENCE, RI - Where a plaintiff whose claim for Disability Insurance Benefits (DIB) was denied by an administrative law judge has challenged the ALJ’s reliance on a vocational ...More

Jury and jurors – Race – Pretext
PROVIDENCE, RI - Where a defendant has filed an appeal claiming that the prosecutor’s peremptory strike of the sole African-American venireperson during voir dire violated the defendant’s ...More