Insurance

• Secured summary judgment for contractor’s professional liability insurer in the Southern District of New York declaring that there was no coverage for a $110 million cost overrun lawsuit against insured developer
• Secured summary judgment, subsequently affirmed by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, for architects and engineers insurer in multi-million dollar bad faith action involving novel issue of whether insured’s refusal to consent to settlement offers precluded liability for failure to effectuate a settlement when liability was reasonably clear.
• Obtained favorable result for client in eight-day arbitration over coverage for costs incurred to remediate dioxins and VOCs resulting from plastics fire.
• Represented architects and engineers insurer in bad faith action seeking over $20 million for excess verdict against insured engineering firm.
• Secured summary judgment for contractor’s professional liability insurer declaring that there was no coverage for an ICC arbitration seeking $18 million against insured manufacturer.
• Obtained summary judgment for legal malpractice insurer in West Virginia state court declaring that no coverage was available for a late-reported claim. The judgment was affirmed by the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
• Won summary judgment in favor of a legal malpractice insurer declaring that there was no coverage for a fee dispute between an insured lawyer and his former law firm.
• Secured partial summary judgment in favor of client declaring that insurer breached duty to defend against an NOR for historical releases of perchloroethylene on client’s property.

Business

• Obtained dismissal of consumer protection class action claims against a national salvage vehicle auction facility concerning disposing of unclaimed vehicles.
• Secured summary judgment precluding recovery by class claimants in consumer protection action against release of information service provider for allegedly unlawful charges.
• Obtained defense verdict for Oracle Applications implementer at a six-day jury trial on claims that the company improperly installed software.
• Successfully defended an outsourced recruitment provider against claims for fraud and unfair business practices brought by a former customer, and secured a $2.1 million judgment on provider’s counterclaim for breach of contract.
• Represented the selling shareholders of business in multi-million dollar fraud claim by corporate purchaser for alleged misrepresentations in transactional documents.
• Obtained temporary restraining order preventing defaulting seller from conveying premises to anyone other than client after seller learned that corporate purchaser was interested in constructing development on property.
• Successfully represented product manufacturer in multimillion dollar lawsuit against supplier of defective components to recover amounts paid to third parties for property damage caused by component failure.

Professional Liability

• Secured summary judgment, subsequently affirmed by the Massachusetts Appeals Court, for trustees of a condominium on claims that they had wrongfully withheld insurance proceeds from a unit owner.
• Obtained summary judgment in favor of a real estate attorney on purchaser’s claims that he had improperly certified title to the acquired property and failed to detect misdescription in the deed.
• Secured dismissal of several lawsuits brought by an estate beneficiary against an attorney retained to represent the estate in litigation brought by her.
• Represented numerous attorneys in disciplinary matters for alleged violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct.

• Boston Bar Association, Co-Chair Insurance and Reinsurance Committee, 2017-2020
• Massachusetts Bar Association
• Professional Liability Underwriting Society
• Hearing Officer, Board of Bar Overseers, 2012-2014
• Massachusetts Insurance and Reinsurance Bar Association, Board of Directors, 2018-present

• Panelist, “Insurance Coverage for Professional Liability Attorneys,” Boston Bar Association, March 2022
• Panelist, “The Past, Present, and Future of Business Insurance and Employee Benefits,” BankProvidence Webinar, September 2020
• Author, “Insurance Coverage for Social Engineering Wire-Fraud Scams,” For the Defense, October 2018
• Presenter, “Engineers Professional Liability Insurance,” Half Moon Seminars, October 2018, October 2017, and February 2015
• Author, “Choice of Law in Bad Faith Claims,” For the Defense, May 2017
• Author, “Can Damaging Internal Emails be Kept From the Jury,” New England In-House, August 2016

• Best Lawyers in America (Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law, Litigation–Insurance, and Professional Malpractice Law), 2023-Present
• Massachusetts Super Lawyers (Business Litigation), 2009-Present