PSD Receives Awards from Governor, Senate and House

The Governor’s office, state Senate and House conferred upon PSD recognition for its launch of the PSD International Child Rescue Project at an event hosted at PSD’s Back Bay offices.

A federal judge denied a motion to dismiss by Metropolitan Property & Casualty Insurance Company and the Commerce Insurance Company in a civil RICO case. PSD represents a large plaintiffs’ law firm. The firm brought claims against the insurance companies asserting that they improperly imposed prohibitions on healthcare providers’ cooperation with insurance claims by patients. As alleged, the insurance companies also purported to give criminal releases to those providers in return for those restraints, indicating that the insurers threatened the use of criminal charges in a civil context. The federal court found that the allegations stated plausible claims. Also, the federal court found agreed with PSD that the insurance carriers had inappropriately tried to combine multiple briefs in order to avoid page limitations.

The Court’s decision can be found here: 10 Order on Motions to Dismiss Counterclaims and to Strike

In a hotly contested RICO case, a PSD client won a motion to compel on several grounds. In the process, the federal court ruled that Plaintiffs Metropolitan Property & Casualty Insurance Company and the Commerce Insurance Company violated the Order governing an e-discovery protocol. Specifically, these insurance carriers did not allow their vendor to participate in efforts to resolve e-discovery issues. Metropolitan’s and Commerce’s lawyers had argued that they did not want to put their vendors in the position of being cross-examined. The federal court rejected that position. In so doing, the federal court held that Metropolitan’s and Commerce’s “refusal to allow participation by their vendors in the meet and confer process violates both the spirit and the letter of the December 20, 2017 Order Governing E-Discovery Protocol.”