USA - November 5 2010
The First Circuit has agreed to hear an appeal from a recent District of Massachusetts decision taking a very broad view of the whistleblower protection provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Anthony D. Mirenda
USA - April 14 2010
In Esposito v Home Depot U.S.A., Inc., 590 F.3d 72 (1st Cir. 2009), an individual whose fingers were severed by a power saw sued the saw’s manufacturer, packager and retailer in Rhode Island state court alleging the saw was defectively designed.
David R. Geiger
Puerto Rico, USA - April 14 2010
In College of Dental Surgeons of Puerto Rico v. Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, 585 F.3d 33 (1st Cir. 2009), a statutorily-created, compulsory-membership association of Puerto Rico dentists sued multiple insurance companies in a Puerto Rico trial court alleging that defendants’ practices violated Puerto Rico law and harmed association members.
David R. Geiger
USA - April 14 2010
In Allen v Martin Surfacing, 263 F.R.D. 47 (D. Mass. 2009), the survivors of a college football coach who died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (“ALS”) sued the firm that had resurfaced a gymnasium adjacent to decedent’s office for negligence and wrongful death in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
David R. Geiger
USA - April 14 2010
In Haglund v Philip Morris, Inc, 2009 WL 3839004 (Mass. Super. Ct. Oct. 20, 2009), the widow of a man who had died of lung cancer sued a cigarette manufacturer in Massachusetts Superior Court for breach of the implied warranty of merchantability based on the allegedly defective design of defendant’s cigarettes to deliver too much nicotine.
David R. Geiger