New England Biz Law Update

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling extending Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower protection to private contractors of publicly traded companies has some attorneys concerned about the lack of any limiting principle. The decision in Lawson v. FMR LLC was the court’s first stab at ...

A Rhode Island Superior Court judge has ruled that an independent contractor who was responsible for generating new business for a Rhode Island company could not be sued for tortious interference after leaving to start a competing firm. The Rhode ...

The president of a closely held family corporation needed board approval to terminate his brother, the vice president of the company, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge has ruled in a case of first impression. The corporation argued that its president, ...

A company that provides recordkeeping and administration services for qualified tuition plans was not entitled to a preliminary injunction blocking a former employee from going to work for a company that performs similar functions, a U.S. District Court judge has ...

A U.S. magistrate judge has ruled that a college professor can move forward with a lawsuit accusing her supervisor — who allegedly sexually harassed her at work — of aiding and abetting employment discrimination. The supervisor argued that the aiding ...

An insurance company that paid workers’ compensation benefits to an injured plaintiff is not entitled to full reimbursement from a settlement of a third-party liability suit, a U.S. District Court judge in Rhode Island has determined. The plaintiff argued that ...

Changes are afoot at the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents, but those in charge insist they have nothing to do with any of the well-documented problems plaguing the agency. A Dec. 30 story in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly reported on an ...

An ambiguity in the Massachusetts Wage Act has been unfairly jacking up settlements, according to certain members of the labor and employment bar who believe the issue needs to be fixed. Seyfarth Shaw’s Lynn A. Kappelman says a client in ...

A skycap who was fired because his employer said he solicited tips in violation of company policy could bring a retaliation claim asserting that he was actually terminated for his involvement in a Fair Labor Standards Act action against the ...

The city of Boston and Prudential Insurance Co. are locked in an acerbic, multi-million-dollar fight at the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that will have major implications for New England lawyers involved in large Chapter 11 reorganizations. The case, ...