 Link to Report | Lowell jury awards record $2.25 million in concussion suit | Verdict for a school teacher who suffered a minor traumatic brain injury in a car collision that prevented her return to full-time work. |
| Link to Report | $3 Million mediated settlement for the family of a 69-year-old man who was beaten to death by his neighbor in an unprovoked attack. | The murderer, a Level 3 registered sex offender who had been released from prison seven years
earlier after serving a 15-year sentence for attempted rape, during which he stabbed an older woman, was renting a condominium unit from his brother. His brother
refused to warn neighbors or the condominium association. Nevertheless, the condominium association learned the criminal’s background but refused to post known
information about the attacker for the six years before the criminal murdered the unsuspecting victim. |
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Link to Decision | ROSANNE SLINEY vs. DOMENIC A. PREVITE, JR. | Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld constitutionality of retroactive extension
of child sex abuse statute of limitations and reversed dismissal of incest case. |
Worcester Mass.Super.Ct.
| Civil rights settlement-Domestic Violence | Civil rights settlement enabled family of domestic
violence victims to recover damages from municipal police who refused to enforce domestic violence laws against abusing spouse/father. Analyzed in: Dianne
Williamson, Victims Fight Abuse and System, WORCESTER TELEGRAM & GAZETTE (January 6, 2002) and 17 New England Jury Verdict Review & Analysis 10 (March 2002). |
U.S. Dist. Ct. D. Mass.
| Employment Pregnancy Discrimination | Papageorge v. Mothers Work, Inc., U.S. Dist. Ct. D. Mass. No. 03-CV-11193-JLT - Settlement on eve
of trial in a widely reported case brought on behalf of pregnancy clothing chain district manager fired from employment because she became pregnant. |
U.S. Dist. Ct. D. Mass.
| Mass. woman raped at Cayman Islands resort | Genereux v. Columbia Sussex Corporation, U.S. Dist. Ct. D. Mass. No. 05-CV-10879-JLT - $1.1 Million settlement on the
eve of trial in Boston on behalf of Mass. woman raped at Cayman Islands resort at which she had not been guest. |
U.S. Dist. Ct. D. Mass.
| Mass. woman raped at Cayman Islands resort | Genereux v. Columbia Sussex Corporation, U.S. Dist. Ct. D. Mass. No. 05-CV-10879-JLT - $1.1 Million settlement on the
eve of trial in Boston on behalf of Mass. woman raped at Cayman Islands resort at which she had not been guest. |