Massachusetts Wrongful Death Lawsuits
Losing a family member is painful, and when you lose a family member because of the action or inaction of another person, anger compounds the loss. Not only have you lost your loved one, you are facing...
View ArticleEmployment Law: Massachusetts Sick Leave Law Now In Effect
If you work in a company of 11 or more people, you are now entitled to paid sick leave. The law became effective on July 15, 2015, and it requires that you receive one hour of paid leave for every...
View ArticleSouth Hadley Electric Light Department sued under whistleblower law
By ERIC GOLDSCHEIDER For the Gazette A South Hadley Electric Light Department electrician is suing his employer for $750,000 under a federal whistleblower law, arguing that the municipal utility’s...
View ArticleEmployee’s whistleblower suit claims workplace abuse at South Hadley Electric...
By Jim Russell | Special to The Republican SOUTH HADLEY — Workplace abuse spanning more than a decade and failures to address it are among claims at the heart of a whistleblower lawsuit filed by a...
View ArticleLawyer’s letters allege workplace intimidation at South Hadley Electric Light...
By ERIC GOLDSCHEIDER | For the Gazette Worcester attorney Andrew Gambaccini in June 2014 wrote a letter to each of the three commissioners of the South Hadley Electric Light Department in which he...
View ArticleWorcester Super Lawyers: Vigliotti and Gambaccini
Vigliotti Named A Massachusetts Super Lawyer and Gambaccini Again Named A Rising Star The Worcester, Massachusetts law firm of Reardon, Joyce & Akerson, P.C. announces that John K. Vigliotti, an...
View ArticleSouth Hadley Fire District 1 Fire Chief Robert Authier hires lawyer after...
By Jim Russell | Special to The Republican The South Hadley Fire District 1 Prudential Committee has voted not to renew the employment contract of Chief Robert Authier, which expires on Dec. 31. The...
View ArticlePremises Liability – What is it and Who is at fault?
Winter is coming, and there will be snow and ice. In fact, if it’s anything like last year, there may be a lot of snow and ice. Injuries due to snow and ice may be cause for damages in a premises...
View ArticleSouth Hadley Fire District 1 to keep Robert Authier as chief despite refusing...
By Jim Russell | Special to The Republican The South Hadley Fire District 1 Prudential Committee has notified Fire Chief Robert Authier they intend to keep him as chief, even though the board has not...
View ArticleMassachusetts Employment Law -The Whistleblower
What is a Whistleblower? A Whistleblower is a person who brings violations of the law to the attention of the appropriate enforcement authorities. But that’s risky, isn’t it? If you report that your...
View ArticleChicopee Police sergeant wins back job after Civil Service Commission rejects...
By Jeanette DeForge | MassLive A Chicopee Police Department sergeant, once accused of sharing graphic photos of murder victim Amanda Plasse, has been reinstated by the Massachusetts Civil Service...
View ArticleWhat Workers Need To Know When Injured At A Construction Site in Massachusetts
In Massachusetts, the DIA or Department of Industrial Accidents oversees workers’ compensation claims from Construction Accidents. OSHA, which is the U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and...
View ArticleFirst Circuit Court Of Appeals Affirms Judgment In Favor Of Fall River Police...
In 2015, RJA secured the dismissal of a civil rights claim brought against the Chief of Police for the City of Fall River. The plaintiff in the action accused a Fall River police officer of raping her...
View ArticleThings Construction Workers Should Know About Onsite Accidents
Construction Accidents happen for many reasons. People injured in construction accidents within the state of Massachusetts often face medical bills and related expenses that can dig deeply into their...
View ArticleCar Accident Expenses – Who Pays For What
You’ve been in a serious car accident along the busy roads of Worcester. The damage to your vehicle is great, but that doesn’t measure up to the pain that goes along with your injuries. Not only is...
View ArticleDracut deputy police chief digs in for hearing
By Todd Feathers | Lowell Sun DRACUT — Town Manager Jim Duggan has scheduled a civil-service hearing Monday to determine whether Deputy Police Chief David Chartrand violated department policy and state...
View ArticleRecords show ex-police chief offered to leave for $350K
By K.C. Myers | Cape Cod Times PROVINCETOWN — Getting rid of Police Chief Jeff Jaran could have occurred more quickly and cost the town nearly $163,000 less than it did, according to newly released...
View ArticleDracut MA deputy police chief suspended
By Todd Feathers | Lowell Sun News DRACUT — Deputy Police Chief David Chartrand has been suspended for two weeks without pay, following a civil service inquiry into his handling of documents in a...
View ArticleAccording to SJC, Police Need Only Notify Suspects of the Recording of the...
In Commonwealth v. Alleyne, ___ Mass. ___ (2016), the Supreme Judicial Court clarified that police officers do not need a suspect’s permission to record the suspect’s interview as long as the suspect...
View ArticleFirst Circuit Court of Apeals Affirms Judgment in Favor of Fall River Police...
In a recent First Circuit decision concerning civil liability for police supervisors, Saldivar v. Racine, 818 F.3d 14 (2016), Reardon, Joyce & Akerson, P.C. (“RJA”) successfully represented the...
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