New England Biz Law Update

Two new laws in Massachusetts require any person or organization with access to records containing personal information about Massachusetts residents to protect those records.

In a trial where the defense seemed to fold its case after two unsuccessful witnesses, a flight instructor and his student won a $54.5 million verdict for debilitating injuries they suffered in a private airplane crash. The plaintiffs claimed the ...

An Alabama jury awarded $50 million to the family of a man who was killed by an exploding water heater. Richard Krantz, a 55-year-old real-estate broker in Daphne, Ala., was critically injured on July 1, 2005, when he attempted to ...

In the first major punitive damages award since the U.S. Supreme Court placed new limits on punitive damages last February, a Los Angeles jury ordered DaimlerChrysler to pay $5.2 million in compensatory damages and $50 million in punitives to a ...

Award is part of a $134 million verdict to three women

Nine months before Merck reached a global settlement with thousands of Vioxx plaintiffs, a New Jersey jury awarded one man $47.5 million for a heart attack caused by taking the painkiller drug for just two months. Frederick “Mike” Humeston lost ...

(Editor’s note: This is the first installment of a six-part series on litigation management. Barry Weiner is a dean of the Massachusetts trial bar, having tried many cases over his 40-year career. He also has extensive experience in resolving cases ...

What changes when lawyers go in-house? Much of it boils down to how you approach legal decisions. Below are perspectives from three lawyers whose experiences in going in-house may guide new in-house counsel. (The names and some of the facts ...

After successfully overseeing rapid growth of financial giant

As I begin my term as president of ACC-Northeast, it is with some trepidation, as I have big shoes to fill! Bill O’Brien, our immediate past president, brought enormous experience and some great, innovative plans to the chapter, and I ...