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Jul 21, 2025
Employment – Emotional distress – Statutory bar
Where a plaintiff has asserted a variety of claims stemming from alleged workplace age discrimination, the defendants’ partial motion to dismiss should be denied as to the plaintiff’s contract claims but allowed as to a count alleging infliction of emotional distress, which is barred by the exclusivity provision of the Massachusetts Workers’ Compensation Act.
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
