2010-2019

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 University of New Hampshire when […]

Attorneys Joseph M. Orlando and Brian S. McCormick of Orlando & Associates successfully negotiated a settlement of $600,000 for a Gloucester man badly injured by the malpractice of a local dentist. The plaintiff, a cancer survivor, went to see his dentist in January of 2011 for an infected tooth.  The dentist removed the tooth, though […]

Off Cape Ann, a rescue gone wrong Yvonne Abraham “Rick says, ‘How is he? How is he?’ ” Lane recalled in mid-December as he geared up for his next fishing trip. “His . . . head was already underwater. He made a few strokes and just stopped.” For all the well-known risks of commercial fishing, […]

The city has offered to cover alternative transportation costs for the family of a 5-year-old special-needs student who was left on a school bus for two hours or more in sub-freezing temperatures last January. But the proposed “resolution” agreement sent from the city to the family also included a provision that would have, if signed, […]

An attorney representing the family of a 5-year-old special needs kindergarten girl left unattended on a parked Gloucester school bus for two hours in sub-freezing temperatures in January has filed a notice of a pending lawsuit seeking $1 million over the school district’s handling of the incident. Attorney Joseph Orlando sent the notice on Wednesday […]

BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com) — The family of a girl with autism plans to sue the City of Gloucester for $1 million after they say their daughter is still recovering from emotional trauma and possible hypothermia she may have endured after being left behind on a school bus. Frightened and alone, a kindergartner with autism was accidentally […]