Practice Areas - Fidelity and Surety
- Construction Litigation
- Products Liability Defense
| - Commercial Litigation
- Toxic Tort Defense
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| University | Colgate University, A.B., History, 1977 |
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| Law School | Western New England College, J.D., cum laude, 1980 |
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| Admitted | 1980, Connecticut; 1983, Ohio (inactive); 1991, U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit; 1992, U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit; 1993, Massachusetts, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts and U.S. Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit; 1994, U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit |
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| Memberships | American Bar Association (Member: Tort and Insurance Practice Committee; Fidelity and Surety Sub-Committee; Forum on the Construction Industry); Surety Claims Institute; National Bond Claims Association. |
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| Born | Holyoke, Massachusetts, December 9, 1955 |
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| Biography | Phi Alpha Theta. Author: "Performance Bonds, the Most Important Questions a Surety Can Ask ", Contributor: Fidelity & Surety Law Comm., ABA (1997); Handling Fidelity Bond Claims", M. Keeley, T. Sukel, Ed., Chapter: Loss and Causation, Fidelity & Surety Law Comm., ABA (1999); "The Auditor's Responsibility to Detect Fraud", (with D.M. Studler), The Fidelity Law Association Journal, Volume IV (September 1998); "Collection of Attorneys Fees and Costs Incurred by a Surety in Defending Itself From Bad Faith Claims", (unpublished), Eastern Bond Claims Review, (May 2001); "Miscellaneous Bonds" (Contributor) Fidelity & Surety Law Comm., ABA (1993). |
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| Reported Cases | C&I Steel v. Travelers Cas. & Sur. Co. of Amer., 70 Mass. App. 653, 876 N.E. 2d 442 (2007); Reliance Ins. Co. v. City of Boston, 2008 WL 1134400 (2008); Williams v. Ashland Engineering, 45 F.3d 488 (1st Cir. 1995); Jefferson Bank v. Progressive Casualty Ins. Co., 965 F.2d 1274 (3d. Cir. 1992); Broadway National Bank v. Progressive Casualty Ins. Co., 775 F.Supp. 123 (NYDC 1991). |
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| ISLN | 908497803 |
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