The children of Margaret Flanagan of Saugus, who died of cancer in 2018, yesterday sued Harvard Medical School and former mortuary director Cedric Lodge for what may have happened to her body parts after she willed her body to the school and then died. Read more.
The Hamilton Co., which owns the office building at 392-398 Chestnut Hill Ave. in Cleveland Circle, today sued to try to block plans by an Ipswich concern to turn the former Dunkin' Donuts on Beacon Street into a marijuana dispensary. Read more.
A Stoneham woman today became the latest to sue Brigham and Women's rheumatologist Derrick Todd for both medically unwarranted breast and pelvic exams and off-hours communications that included telling her to read an online article about the benefits of orgasm for "pelvic congestion." Read more.
Update, 2/9/24:: Boston Beer Corp. has agreed to drop Soudant from its lawsuit, which continues against Downeast Cider House.
Boston Beer Corp., which makes both Sam Adams beer and Angry Orchard cider, yesterday sued a former manager and Downeast Cider House, the East Boston cider maker where he went to work after quitting Boston Beer this spring. Read more.
The Committee for Public Counsel Services yesterday sued State Police for refusing to hand over what the group says are public records on everything from criminal cases against troopers to information on trooper use of software that turns phones into surveillance tools. Read more.
A Sherborn resident who wants to go by "Jane Doe" today filed the latest medical-malpractice lawsuit against Dr. Richard Todd, who was fired from his job at Brigham and Women's Hospital earlier this year and who is under investigation by the state Board of Registration in Medicine for sexual practices on patients that he denies. Read more.
Nutter, McLennen & Fish today sued the owner of Seaport West, the tall curved brick office building across Seaport Boulevard from the World Trade Center, over what it says is an outrageous $1-million annual rent increase. Read more.
The family of Michael Wojdag of Hanson, who died on I-93 in Braintree on Feb. 19 after his SUV rolled over and he was ejected last week sued Hedweens Quetant of Roslindale, whom they caused the crash while racing another driver. Read more.
The owner of the Andrew Square building where Tyler Falconer used to run a dog training and boarding facility yesterday sued him for the rent he stopped paying when he was charged with animal cruelty and shut his business. Read more.
The Massachusetts Veterans of Foreign Wars yesterday asked a judge to order Post 144, possibly no longer on Hanover Street in the North End, to immediately hand over its financial books for a deep audit of what's been going on with all the money the post has collected in recent years - with several hundred thousand dollars, including money meant to help veterans in need, unaccounted for. Read more.
The John B. Cruz Construction Co. yesterday sued Beacon Communities over the way it charges Beacon pushed it out of a project to rebuild the Boston Housing Authority's 357-unit Lenox/Camden complex in Roxbury. Read more.
A resident of Lothrop Street in Brighton last week sued to stop construction of a proposed six-story apartment building on Leo Birmingham Parkway where the State Police had their temporary barracks. Read more.
From the complaint: From flirty introduction to dawning realization something's wrong. See it larger.
The state Attorney General's office yesterday sued a Chinese cryptocoin venture with a name almost identical to another, more legitimate cryptocoin venture for defrauding cryptoinvestors - and moved to freeze the company's assets, which the state says it traced to an account with yet another cryptocurrency company. Read more.
Update, Feb. 15, 2024: A judge dismissed the case after the parties came to a settlement, terms of which were not disclosed.
A New Hampshire woman headed for a free-sample table at Eataly at the Pru last fall says she never made it because she slipped on a slice of prosciutto - and now she is suing over the fractured ankle she says she suffered. Read more.
The owners of a dispensary on Boylston Street between Gloucester and Fairfield streets in the Back Bay yesterday sued the operators of a proposed dispensary three blocks down the street - and the Zoning Board of Appeal, which approved both. Read more.
Four construction firms that teamed up to build the Green Line Extension say the company that designed key components of the new trolley line screwed up to the tune of more than $35 million in cost overruns, and they are demanding payment, in a suit filed today in Suffolk Superior Court. Read more.
The state Attorney General's office today asked a judge to order the Mystic Valley Regional Charter School in Malden to either hand over records requested by a local reporter, an advocacy group and a Malden resident or give a better answer than it doesn't want to. Read more.
Four New Hampshire residents who say their father willed his body to Harvard Medical School yesterday sued Harvard and former mortuary director Cedric Lodge for the way Lodge may have removed parts from their father's body to sell to one or more macabre collectors - at least some right at the school mortuary, whose doors he allegedly opened to them. Read more.
Vinay Mehra, who left as president of Boston Globe Media Partners in 2020 after just three years in the job, yesterday sued the company over the more than $12 million in lost wages, commissions and severance he claims he is owed under a contract he charges John and Linda Henry's company decided not to honor - times three, under the state wage act. Read more.
The owner of a single-family home on East Broadway in South Boston yesterday sued to block construction of a new two-family house and the additions of dormers and an extension to an existing home on an East 4th Street lot that touches his property at a single point, arguing the construction would mean more noise, overcrowding and shadows, and less air, light, privacy and property value for him. Read more.
Help keep Universal Hub going. If you like what we're up to and want to help out, please consider a (completely non-deductible) contribution.
