Employment – Cash incentives – Valuation
PROVIDENCE, RI - Where two employees of a biotechnology company have alleged breach of a “Long-Term Incentive Cash Bonus Plan Award Agreement,” the company’s motion to dismiss should ...More

Negligence – Recreational Use Statute – Immunity
PROVIDENCE, RI - Where summary judgment was awarded to the state as the defendant in a negligence action involving a slip-and-fall accident in a bathroom at Scarborough South State ...More

Environmental – OWTS regulations
PROVIDENCE, RI - Where a plaintiff filed a complaint in Superior Court challenging the constitutionality of the Department of Environmental Management’s onsite wastewater treatment ...More

Fee charged by assisted living residence upheld by SJC
BOSTON, MA - An assisted living residence’s practice of charging incoming residents a “community fee” has been upheld as valid by the Supreme Judicial Court. A class of plaintiffs ...More

Civil practice – Anonymity
BOSTON, MA - Where the defendants (a law firm and one of its former partners) have moved to vacate an order authorizing the plaintiff to proceed anonymously through use of a ...More

Attorneys – Statute of limitations – Malpractice
BOSTON, MA - Where an attorney and her law firm have moved to dismiss a complaint filed against them, that motion should be allowed because the claims set forth in the complaint ...More

Consumer protection – Cigarettes – Jury instruction
BOSTON, MA - Where a jury returned a verdict for a defendant tobacco company under G.L.c. 93A, a remand must be ordered because the trial judge erred by giving the jury an instruction ...More