New England Biz Law Update

A building manager’s complaints about her salary and extended work hours were insufficient to place her employer on notice that she was asserting a right to overtime for purposes of triggering the protections of the Massachusetts Wage Act’s retaliation provision, ...

Tagged with: Judge Kaplan Massachusetts Wage Act Mitchell H. Kaplan Mitchell Kaplan superior court Wage Act

A 50-percent shareholder in a computer technology company could show the existence of a “true deadlock” in corporate governance necessary to proceed with an action for involuntary dissolution under state law, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has decided. The plaintiff ...

In the absence of discriminatory or retaliatory motivation on the employer’s part, an at-will employee who resigns due to the non-payment of wages is not entitled to assert a claim of constructive discharge, a Superior Court judge in Massachusetts has ...

Tagged with: Gavin Reardon J. Gavin Reardon Jr. judge reardon massachusetts subway superior court unpaid wages

The U.S. Supreme Court capped off its latest term by handing two key victories to corporations seeking to avoid being sued in plaintiff-friendly state courts. In Bristol–Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of California, the Supreme Court held that California ...

The Massachusetts Appeals Court has found that lawyers for a limited liability company could be sued for breaching a fiduciary duty to the LLC’s minority members despite the lack of an attorney-client relationship. Counsel for the LLC were accused of ...

A Massachusetts employer’s claims for breach of a non-compete agreement must be litigated in California where the defendant lives and worked for the plaintiff, notwithstanding a Massachusetts forum selection clause in the employment contract, a Superior Court judge has found. ...

In a ruling examining the interplay between social media and the workplace, the Rhode Island Supreme Court has held in a split decision that there was insufficient evidence to show an employee’s Facebook post was “connected with his work” so ...

The “going-and-coming” rule did not apply to bar the workers’ compensation claim of a nurse who sustained serious injuries in an accident that occurred when she was driving home for the weekend during the course of a temporary job assignment ...

The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that two corporate executives of a bankrupt hospital could not bring a claim in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for severance payments. The 1st Circuit upheld a U.S. District Court judge’s ruling that ...

Employees who brought a successful class action against their employer for violation of the Wage Act are entitled to statutory pre-judgment interest on their lost pay and benefits, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has found. The SJC also decided, however, ...