2010-2019

Joseph M. Orlando, Jr., Esq., Partner at Orlando & Associates along with Senior Associate Brian McCormick have procured a $1,000,000 settlement on behalf of a wheelchair-bound woman who was run over in a cross-walk and dragged by a pick up truck on the Lynnway. The driver of the pick-up truck was a landscaping worker who […]

GLOUCESTER, Mass. – It was a fire in 1998, dubbed the Fisherman’s Wharf fire in Gloucester, that sent firefighters scrambling to cover, including Michael Smith. “He went into a chemical fire and fought,” said widow Mary Beth Smith. Mary Beth says her husband and other didn’t have the proper apparatus to fight the fire. Michael Smith was eventually diagnosed […]

Wife of late firefighter still battling for recognition State forced to review line of duty death benefits for Gloucester firefighter   MaryBeth Smith says one of the hardest things to think about regarding her husband’s death is that if he ventured into a blaze like the 1998 Fisherman’s Wharf fire now, he would be protected. “They didn’t […]

Gloucester’s Local 762 firefighters have given a $13,000 kick to muscular dystrophy through their annual boot drive. They carried out the drive along Western Avenue in August and September, meeting their goal and matching the amount raised last year, retired firefighter and project coordinator James Hannon Jr. said. Hannon said the drive received a special finish-line […]

The family of a special needs child left on a Gloucester school bus more than a year ago has filed a lawsuit seeking undetermined damages through a jury trial. The suit charges the city, Superintendent Richard Safier, and former East Gloucester Elementary school principal Carol Bratt with negligence and the “intentional infliction of emotional distress” […]

By Ray Lamont Staff Writer A former Essex resident has been awarded $500,000 for injuries he sustained when beaten outside a New Hampshire bar more than two years ago through a legal settlement negotiated by a Gloucester law firm. Marc Shields, who is now 23 and living in South Hamilton, was a student at the […]