Legal Opinion
Trinh v. Gentle Communications, LLC
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided March 10, 2008No. 07-P-441PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKafker, J.
Lisa Trinh, a junior employee of Gentle Communications, LLC, doing business as Gentle Dental (Gentle), complained that the dentist in charge of its Brookline office, Samuel Tencer, sexually harassed her. The matter went to a jury, which found, on special questions, that (1) Tencer sexually harassed Trinh; (2) such harassment proximately caused damages of $20,000 for emotional injury and $20,000 in lost income or back pay; (3) Tencer was individually liable for a punitive award of $65,000; (4) Gentle was separately liable for Tencer’s sexual harassment because it knew of Tencer’s harassment…
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