New England Biz Law Update

Claims by two female employees that their former supervisor subjected them to a hostile work environment based on their gender and retaliated against them when they complained of the discrimination presented genuine, material disputes of fact foreclosing summary judgment in ...

Summary judgment should not have been granted to an insurer that claimed an employer knowingly and intentionally deceived it into retroactively reinstating a canceled policy so as to cover a claimed workers’ compensation injury, the Workers’ Compensation Court Appellate Division ...

Adopting the “Restatement rule” for assessing whether or not a duty exists between an accountant and an aggrieved third party, the Rhode Island Supreme Court has ruled that an accounting firm could not be liable for a report relied on ...

With a business background, Ethan J. Ceplikas assumed that he would be drawn to the practice of corporate law. Instead, he found himself fascinated by his real estate classes during law school and enjoyed his work in the affordable housing ...

A plaintiff alleging sex discrimination and sex harassment must present only sufficient circumstantial evidence from which a jury could find in her favor, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has decided. The plaintiff employee filed suit against her former ...

It’s safe to say that Boston lawyer Joseph M. Makalusky ended 2012 on a high note. In late December, Makalusky’s client Mark Giddarie was awarded $18.5 million for his role as a whistleblower in a False Claims Act suit against ...

Tagged with: February 28 2013 issue

Does a food allergy constitute a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act? According to a recent settlement between Lesley University and the U.S. Department of Justice, the answer is: It depends.

Tagged with: February 28 2013 issue

Less than a year after a federal judge issued a seminal electronic discovery ruling blessing the use of computer-assisted review, the technology is already appearing in courts across the country.

Tagged with: February 28 2013 issue

How does a claim for $12,770 turn into an award of almost $100,000? In the case of Mullen v. RBS Citizens Bank, it took 27 fraudulent checks, two trials, one appellate court decision, the death of the original plaintiff and ...

Tagged with: Dec. 31 2012 issue

A defendant can be found liable for induced infringement of a method patent if it has performed some of the steps of a claimed method and induced other parties to commit the remaining steps, or if it has induced other ...

Tagged with: Nov. 30 2012 issue