New England Biz Law Update

A surgeon who brought a discrimination suit against the hospital where she used to work was entitled to discovery of allegedly defamatory communications between her former supervisor and another hospital that subsequently rejected her application for credentials, a U.S. magistrate ...

An employee who applied for Social Security Disability Insurance benefits claiming to be unable to work because of a disabling condition could not hold her former employer liable for failing to reasonably accommodate her disabilities, a U.S. magistrate judge has ...

Two security officers at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell could sue for violations of their First Amendment rights based on claims they were fired for speaking out publicly against unfair hiring practices and sexual harassment, a Superior Court judge in Massachusetts ...

Two former board members and investors in a biotechnology startup had no personal liability under the state Wage Act for compensation due the limited liability company’s former president, the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts has decided. The plaintiff president argued ...

The terms of a software company executive’s severance agreement completely extinguished rights to preferred shares and stock options granted during the periods of his employment, the Massachusetts Appeals Court has found. The plaintiff argued that a general release of claims ...

While no one wants to return to the days when colleges too often swept sexual assault allegations under the rug, local attorneys are cautiously optimistic that a new process recently announced by the U.S. secretary of education will culminate in ...

Tagged with: Betsy DeVos college campus sexual assault Harvard University secretary of education sexual assault Title IX

A U.S. District Court judge in Rhode Island has found that a company that terminated an employee for excessive absenteeism could not be awarded summary judgment, as the employee raised a jury question regarding whether he gave notice sufficient to ...

Tagged with: Family and Medical Leave Act FMLA John J. McConnell Jr. John McConnell Judge McConnell Rhode Island US District Court USDC

A recent wave of entrants to the Boston legal market underscores that outside firms large and small are finding the client-rich environment irresistible and are undaunted by the challenge of competing with the city’s established firms. North Carolina-based business firm ...

An employment practices liability policy that specified a duty to “defend any claim” did not require the insurance carrier to bear the cost of a compulsory counterclaim against a former employee who sued the insured for wrongful termination, the Massachusetts ...

Tagged with: employment Employment policies Justice Gants massachusetts Mount Vernon Ralph D. Gants Ralph Gants SJC Supreme Judicial Court Visionaid Visionaid and Mount Vernon

The business judgment rule did not shield a company board’s vote not to pursue a derivative suit demanded by a shareholder as there was evidence that the vote was not taken in good faith, a judge in the Business Litigation ...

Tagged with: business litigation Judge Kaplan Mitchell H. Kaplan Mitchell Kaplan