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  • New Statute Grants Right to Sue For Unlawful Harassment

    On February 9, 2010 Governor Deval Patrick approved legislation that created a new right to sue for unlawful harassment in Massachusetts.  G.L. ch. 258E grants a right to sue for compensatory damages and attorney’s fees to anyone who is subjected to harassment as that term is defined.  Harassment includes “3 or more acts of willful [...]

    Posted in Employment Law, Sexual Harrassment

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  • Local Paper Reports on Sexual Harassment Case

    Woman sues town for alleged sexual harassment
    Lawyer for highway employee states, ‘we have a very good case’
    By Jonathan Cook
    Turley Publications Reporter
    May 7, 2010
    WARREN – The Warren Highway Department is an alleged hostile zone of seething tension, a place where one employee’s gender has made her a target, according to a complaint filed against [...]

    Posted in Sexual Harrassment

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  • Execs In $500 Million Scam Receive Very Short Sentences

    A former executive at General Re Corp, who was deeply involved in a reinsurance scam that cost American International Group (AIG) shareholders $500 million, was sentenced on May 4, 2009 to 1 year in prison.  Robert Graham, the defendant, was the the associate general counsel at Gen Re - an attorney.  He helped to draft [...]

    Posted in Corporate Misconduct, Government Accountability

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  • Bush Administration Officials Should Be Prosecuted

    High officials in the Bush administration should be prosecuted for crimes that involved the torture of captives at Guantanamo, physical and sexual abuse of prisoners, illegal wiretapping, lying to Congress and extra-terratorial kidnappings.  Based on Pentagon investigations, publicly released documents, and admissions of other officials in the Bush Administration, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick [...]

    Posted in Government Accountability

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  • Whistleblowers Get $10 Million For Medicaid and Medicare Billing Fraud

    Under federal and state false claims acts, whistleblowers can reap huge windfalls by helping the government to uncover fraudulent practices.
    In a recent New York case, a patient and a doctor in a whistleblower suit will receive a total of $9.9 million out of a settlement paid to the federal and state governments. New York’s Staten [...]

    Posted in Business Misconduct, False Claims

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  • About The Corporate Liability Law Blog

    We created The Corporate Liability Blog to provide information that is helpful to plaintiffs and their attorneys who are working to hold corporations accountable when they violate the law. We will soon be regularly posting commentary, important documents, and links to useful websites and blogs.

    Posted in Business Misconduct

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