The Massachusetts Supreme Court has ruled that their all-risk property insurance policies did not cover business losses sustained by...

An injured employee was awarded double compensation since the employer intentionally failed to take adequate precautions in the face of a...

A jury awarded damages to a group of employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the Massachusetts Wage Act even though there...

The Appellate Tax Board recently ruled that a business qualified as a manufacturer and a corporate excise reduction because it was...

Where a tenant filed a 93A complaint against the landlord, a limitation of liability provision in a lease did not protect the landlord...

An investor claimed a company owner lied when he sold him 1% of his company by not disclosing that outstanding options diluted his...

A bankruptcy judge has been asked to decide whether an employee of a cannabis business is ineligible for Chapter 13 relief because his...

The Massachusetts Supreme Court has ruled that the dispute over whether plaintiffs who entered into franchise agreements to operate...

A 50% shareholder sued to have the corporation dissolved because of irreconcilable differences with the other 50% owner. The court...

A plaintiff sued to enforce a contract that said that if the other side did business with any of its customers in five years, the...

An employer waited three weeks before paying a terminated employee for accrued vacation time. The lower court found that since the...

Delaware courts have decided that the plaintiff extinguished its breach of contract claims when it elected to terminate a merger...

The regulation of data collection and its use marches on. Recent examples include: Illinois Illinois has a new law that took effect on...

An at-will employee fired when he filed a rebuttal letter for inclusion in his personnel file after being placed on a performance...

Carbonite launched a data backup product in October 2018. It withdrew the product from the market in July 2019 after it could not remedy...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down Pennsylvania’s consent-by-registration law. That law said that an out-of-state business...

A developer was required to reserve five building lots for potential municipal use for three years as a permit condition. A federal judge...

The Massachusetts Supreme Court has decided that a company that entered into a subcontract for regional direct sales services for its...

Two parties entered into a contract that had an arbitration clause. About 10 years later they entered into a second contract which did...

Employers continue to grapple with state and federal legislation on COVID-19 vaccinations. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First...