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• Riggs v. Alexandre Construction. (2007)  Middlesex Superior Court ( Massachusetts).  In a three-week jury trial, AP&S defended a general contractor in a case where an ironworker fell 26 feet and sustained serious injuries.  Plaintiff demanded $2 million.  AP&S obtained a defense verdict.
• Bik v. Del Wes.  (2001) Middlesex Superior Court.  In a 3-week jury trial, AP&S defended a manufacturer in a products-liability case.  The plaintiff alleged permanent disability and incurred approximately $600,000 in medical expenses.  AP&S achieved a defense verdict.  The case was listed as one of the year’s “Top 10 Defense Verdicts” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.
• Kelly v. O.E. Plus Ltd., 69 Mass. App. Ct. 1105 (2007), review denied 449 Mass. 1109 (2007).  AP&S represented a distributor of alternators in a double wrongful-death lawsuit arising from a motor vehicle accident and obtained summary judgment on an issue pertaining to lack of foreseeability.  The plaintiffs appealed and the appeals court upheld the trial court’s decision dismissing the plaintiffs’ claims.
• Wentworth v. Henry Becker Custom Building, Ltd .  (2007)  AP&S obtained summary judgment on behalf of a general contractor in an explosion case where the plaintiffs, employees of a sub-contractor, had accepted a lump-sum payment of workers’ compensation benefits made by the insurer of a general contractor. Based on the Massachusetts Workers’ Compensation statute, the court ruled that the acceptance of payment acts as a release of all claims arising from the incident brought on behalf of the injured employees against the general contractor.