2020-Present

A judge has awarded nearly $1 million in damages to the families of a Gloucester fisherman and three crew mates who died when their boat mysteriously sank off Cape Cod in 2020. The 82-foot Portland, Maine-based Emmy Rose went down early Nov. 23, 2020, as it was heading to port after a seven-day fishing trip, […]

A federal judge has awarded nearly $1 million in damages to the families of four fishermen who died when the Portland-based Emmy Rose sank off the Massachusetts coast in 2020. U.S. District Judge John Woodcock wrote 33 pages about the loved ones left to grieve the tragedy and the difficult calculations involved in quantifying the […]

PORTLAND, Maine — The families of four Maine fishermen who died at sea have been awarded $1 million by a judge as part of a settlement with the ship’s owner. The Emmy Rose sank off the coast of Massachusetts in November 2020 as it was heading to port after a seven-day fishing trip. Robert Blethen, […]

On Feb. 14, 2020, the plaintiff was picking up her take-out order at the defendant pizza shop in Gloucester. As she walked through the parking lot to her car, she slipped and fell on a patch of ice, fracturing her left ankle and the shaft of her left fibula. A bystander called 911, and the […]

The Black Falcon Terminal pier was damaged when the Helsinki Bridge came loose from its mooring after docking in the Boston Harbor in 2017. Massachusetts courts do not have personal jurisdiction over the Panama owner and Singapore operator of a container ship that damaged a MassPort terminal, a U.S. District Court judge has ruled. The […]

On or about June 12, 2018, the 71-year-old plaintiff was dining outdoors with her husband when a patio umbrella (not from her table) came loose and flew into her head. The plaintiff suffered a head injury, concussion, neck pain, vertigo, vestibular dizziness, post-traumatic headaches, memory problems and fatigue.  The plaintiff was transported to the emergency […]