Heather Rowell obtained a defense jury verdict in favor of tow truck company in negligence case. – Galante v. All Cape Towing, Inc., Barnstable Superior Court, Civil Action No. 1972CV00638, 1/26/23 (Buckley, J.). In this case, plaintiff had accepted a ride as a passenger in defendant’s tow truck, after sustaining a flat tire. When she […]

Patricia Noyes-Corrigan secured a verdict for the Defendant in a motor vehicle-bicycle collision following a trial to a jury in the Plymouth Superior Court. The basic facts of the case were that Plaintiff, then 68 years old, was riding his bicycle on Route 53 in Duxbury, MA. He collided with the passenger side of the […]

Heather Rowell obtained a summary judgment in favor of defendants in negligence case involving a trip and fall over a bush in a landscaping island in a parking lot. – Lewis v. RAM MLC Holdings, Inc. f/k/a Maffei Landscape Contractors, Inc. and The Wilder Companies, LTD, Barnstable Superior Court, Civil Action No. 2072CV00330, 10/28/22 (Perrino, […]

Marielise Kelly was successful in the Massachusetts Appeals Court in having judgment of dismissal affirmed in her client’s favor on the basis of the sudden medical emergency doctrine in a case involving serious personal injuries sustained to a mother and her child after a high speed collision where the defendant driver suffered a seizure prior […]

Jury Verdict – Marielise Kelly and Elise Marshall successfully defended Martha’s Vineyard Transit Authority in civil rights case tried in federal court. Kevin Brooks v. Martha’s Vineyard Transit Authority; Transit Connection, Inc. and James Taylor, 19-11119-WGY, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The case involved alleged violations of the Massachusetts Public Accommodations […]

Summary Judgement – Marielise Kelly obtained a partial summary judgment in favor of Defendant Martha’s Vineyard Transit Authority on Plaintiff’s claims under M.G.L.c. 93A; 42 U.S.C. §1981, as well as a count alleging negligent infliction of emotional distress. The court ruled, as a matter of law, that M.G.L.c. 93A did not apply to the actions […]

Jury Verdict – John H. Bee obtained a defendant’s verdict for the Defendant John Nagle Company, a company that supplied salmon to Captain Marden’s Seafood, Inc., a seafood market. Captain Marden’s sold the salmon to The Cottage Restaurant which grilled the salmon and served it to three people who became ill. Plaintiff alleged that Defendant […]

Jury Verdict – Marielise Kelly successfully defended an excavation subcontractor at trial in connection with a construction site accident alleging negligence against defendant. Plaintiff was operating a Caterpillar 330 excavator at a construction site adjacent to an excavation that he had dug in the days prior to the accident. The excavator was found on its […]