INSURANCE: Insurers had duty to defend entity purporting to find boarding school placements for troubled teens, coverage not barred by “professional” exclusion in light of non-professional conduct including panicked school employee failing to aid potentially suicidal teen found [Read more…]
Retaliation, town clerk, $145,7639, Council conduct
RETALIATION: $145,739 wage loss/medicals/emotional distress due to handling of Council agenda item focusing on Town Clerk’s prior HR complaint and Councilman’s retaliatory comments, following Supreme Court remand… HRC. [Read more…]
False arrest/imprisonment/wrongful discharge
FALSE ARREST/IMPRISONMENT/WRONGFUL DISCHARGE: Venue change based on publicity/marijuana bias properly denied… actions in hiring drug agent not relevant to false arrest claim… post-arrest evidence relevant to discharge claim, jury instructed not to use it to determine false arrest… sufficient probable cause for drug sting arrest of [Read more…]