Orlando & Associates

Orlando & Associates is included in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly’s list of largest verdicts and settlements of 2014: https://masslawyersweekly.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2015/01/Largest_VS_2014.pdf

By: Mass. Lawyers Weekly Staff July 24, 2014 A fisherman had taken a job working on a vessel that was docked for repairs on a frigid night on January. Earlier in the evening, facility staff had sprayed water on the dock area adjacent to the boat. The area became completely covered in ice and snow. The fisherman […]

The family of Gloucester fisherman Giuseppe “Joe” Cracchiolo, who died in a 2011 fall from a New Bedford dock, has received a total of $1.35 million in two settlements, the second reached while the jury still deliberated at the end of a 10-day trial. Eastern Fisheries, which leased and legally controlled the dock on New […]

NEW BEDFORD — Eastern Fisheries, Inc. has settled a lawsuit brought by the family of a fisherman who died in a January 2011 fall from a Hassey Street dock that was slippery with snow and ice. The firm agreed to pay the family of Guiseppi Cracchiolo of Gloucester $900,000 in the case, after a 10-day […]

By Gail McCarthy Staff Writer, May 17, 2014 Gloucester’s Jane Daniel, publisher of a Holocaust memoir that turned out to be a lie, has been vindicated in court after more than 15 years of litigation brought on by the author of the book. The years of litigation began when Belgium-born Misha Defonseca sued her publisher […]

By Richard Gaines Staff Writer Apr 16, 2013 The Gloucester Police Department report on the May 31, 2012 crash that claimed the life of a local motorcyclist has pinned the cause of the crash was the fact that a Dumpster truck “was in the breakdown lane” of Essex Avenue just as a UPS delivery truck […]