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Damages – Postjudgment interest – Sovereign immunity
Where a plaintiff recovered punitive damages under G.L.c. 151B against a subdivision of the commonwealth, sovereign immunity bars an award of postjudgment interest on the punitive damages and on the award […]
Insurance – Postjudgment interest – Limitations
Where two complaints have been filed alleging that the defendant insurance companies violated G.L.c. 235, section19, by not paying postjudgment interest, the plaintiffs’ claims under that statute are governed by […]
Damages – Postjudgment interest – Insurance
Where plaintiffs were awarded $6 million dollars in damages for injuries sustained in an automobile accident, a defendant insurance company that had issued an automobile liability insurance policy in the amount of $100,000 must be held liable for postjudgment on the entire amount of the judgment.
Damages – Interest – Fees – G.L.c. 231, section6F
Where defendants were awarded $1.23 million in counsel fees and costs made pursuant to G.L.c. 231, section6F, based on a judge's finding that “substantially all, if not all, of the plaintiffs' claims were wholly insubstantial, frivolous, and not advanced in good faith," postjudgment interest should be added to the $1.23 million award.
Damages – Postjudgment interest
Where a plaintiff who was injured at a hotel obtained a judgment against the hotel, postjudgment interest must run from the date of that judgment despite subsequent proceedings concerning the hotel's cross-claim against the hospital that treated the plaintiff.
Verdicts & Settlements
- Injury during baby’s adenoidectomy leads to stroke
- Construction worker’s hand caught in cement mixer
- Worker trapped in freezer, dies during steam cleaning
- Pedestrian, 69, hit by motor vehicle while in crosswalk
- Four-vehicle pileup leaves driver with spinal cord injury
- Nursing home staff blamed for kidney-failure death
- Pharmacy’s late delivery blamed for patient’s death
- Man, 25, drowns after swimming lesson at fitness club
Opinion Digests
- Jurisdiction – Forum selection clause – Non-signatory
- Criminal – Responsibility
- Attorneys – Lien
- Landlord and tenant – Default judgment
- Zoning – Constructive grant – Comprehensive permit
- Fraud – False Claims Act – Settlement share
- Civil practice – Discovery – Cybersecurity
