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Jim Brennan Successfully Prosecutes Suit for Declaratory Judgment Involving Uninsured Motorist Coverage
August, 2023 - Jim Brennan obtained a Declaratory Judgment for an insurer against an individual who was pursuing an Uninsured claim against her automobile insurance carrier. The insured alleged that she slipped and fell on a banana peel in a parking lot that had been...
Patricia Noyes-Corrigan Defeats Summary Judgment Motion Brought in Property Damage Subrogation case
Attorney Patricia Noyes Corrigan defeated a motion for summary judgment brought by a general contractor who re-constructed a multi-unit condominium building that sustained substantial water damage after the alleged failure of a pipe fitting that was installed during...
$6.5 Million Settlement for Estate of Construction Worker Obtained by Marielise Kelly and Edward Gargiulo
5-31-2023 - Edward Gargiulo and Marielise Kelly obtained a $6.5 million dollar settlement on behalf of the Estate of a worker fatally injured in construction site accident. The case involved an unwitnessed fall at a construction jobsite. The Defendant General...
Patricia Noyes-Corrigan Secures Jury Verdict for Defendant in Motor Vehicle-Bicycle Collision Case
Patricia Noyes-Corrigan secured a verdict for the Defendant in a motor vehicle-bicycle collision following a trial to a jury in the Plymouth Superior Court. The basic facts of the case were that Plaintiff, then 68 years old, was riding his bicycle on Route 53 in...
Marielise Kelly selected to 2022 Super Lawyers list
Marielise has been selected to the 2022 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor. Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, is a rating...
Jim Brennan Obtained Defense Verdict in a premises liability lawsuit in Nantucket Superior Court
5-12-2022 - Plaintiff tripped and fell on a step inside a Nantucket jewelry store, despite an overhead sign warning customers to “Step Up”. Jim Brennan argued in defense that the jewelry store was not negligent and that even if the warning sign had been posted on the...
Gargiulo / Rudnick Obtains Directed Verdict for Defendant
Jury Trial – In November of 2021, Gargiulo / Rudnick successfully obtained a judgment in favor of her client during Jury Trial, after moving for Directed Verdict. The negligence action involved Plaintiff’s claim of personal injuries and damages stemming from a motor...
Marielise Kelly selected to 2021 Super Lawyers list
Marielise has been selected to the 2021 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor. Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, is a rating...
Marielise Kelly succeeds in having Judgment Affirmed in the Appeals Court on the Basis of Sudden Medical Emergency Doctrine
Marielise Kelly was successful in the Massachusetts Appeals Court in having judgment of dismissal affirmed in her client’s favor on the basis of the sudden medical emergency doctrine in a case involving serious personal injuries sustained to a mother and her child...
Marielise Kelly selected to 2020 Super Lawyers list
Marielise has been selected to the 2020 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor. Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, is a rating...
Marielise Kelly and Gargiulo / Rudnick obtain Defense Verdict in Civil Rights case
Jury Verdict - Marielise Kelly and Gargiulo / Rudnick successfully defended Martha’s Vineyard Transit Authority in civil rights case tried in federal court. Kevin Brooks v. Martha’s Vineyard Transit Authority; Transit Connection, Inc. and James Taylor, 19-11119-WGY,...
Marielise Kelly obtains Partial Summary Judgment in Civil Rights case.
Summary Judgement - Marielise Kelly obtained a partial summary judgment in favor of Defendant Martha’s Vineyard Transit Authority on Plaintiff’s claims under M.G.L.c. 93A; 42 U.S.C. §1981, as well as a count alleging negligent infliction of emotional distress. The...