Legal Opinion
Harhen v. Brown
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided May 21, 1999No. 97-P-2126PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGillerman, J.
The plaintiff, a policyholder of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company (Hancock) brought this derivative action by verified complaint against Stephen L. Brown, E. James Morton, and David F. D’Alessandro, directors and senior officers of Hancock, Raeburn B. Hathaway, a vice-president of Hancock and head of its government relations department, F. William Sawyer, the senior registered lobbyist for Hancock, and Hancock as nominal defendant. Brown, Morton, and D’Alessandro are referred to collectively as the Hancock defendants.
The complaint alleges that the individual defendants participated…
2Cases cited32 opinions
- Aronson v. LewisSupreme Court of Delaware · 1984
- Koster v. (American) Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Shaw v. Digital Equipment Corp.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1996
- Demoulas v. Demoulas Super Markets, Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1997
- Starr v. FordhamMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1995
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Harhen v. BrownMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2000
- Rieff v. EvansSupreme Court of Iowa · 2001
- United States v. SawyerDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1999
- Tierney v. John Hancock Mutual Life InsuranceMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2003
- Silverman v. Liberty Mutual InsuranceMassachusetts Superior Court · 2001
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