Employee fired days after complaining about unpaid business expense reimbursements states plausible Wage Act retaliation claim where employer condition payment of wages on employee advancing expense monies.
Nonconforming bituminous concrete use lost protection through nonuse exceeding two years; 1983 bylaw amendment permitting such loss applied.
Insurer properly denied optional bodily injury coverage for household member's negligent entrustment of rental car to unauthorized driver, as entrustment constituted use without vehicle owner's consent.
Affirmed convictions for indecent assault, assault with intent to kill, assault with intent to maim, and assault by dangerous weapon. Rejected challenges to jury instructions, victim character evidence, and claim of duplicative convictions.
Priest-penitent privilege does not protect communications when defendant sought pastor's help contacting victim's family to settle abuse case, violating restraining order.
Appeal from summary judgment dismissing contract and tort claims based on one-year contractual limitations period. Court vacates, finding contractual provision unenforceable because it precludes discovery rule.
Investors in Madoff feeder funds sued KPMG for fraud and misrepresentation. Court held investors' claims were direct, not derivative, and therefore not subject to arbitration provisions in unsigned engagement letters.
Insurer properly applied pro rata allocation method to asbestos indemnity payments under occurrence-based liability policies despite insured's argument for joint and several coverage.
Circumstantial evidence sufficiently proved the defendant intended to intimidate a witness to a criminal proceeding when he threatened the victim in a courthouse hallway.
Homeowner's insurance exclusion for frozen-pipe damage turns on whether the insured used reasonable care to maintain heat while property was unoccupied. Reversed because jury instruction improperly attributed caretaker's negligence without determining relationship between principal and agent.
