Legal Opinion
Beals v. Commercial Union Insurance
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided May 19, 2004No. 00-P-1840PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPerretta, J.
This appeal presents the question whether principles of res judicata entitle Commercial Union Insurance Company (Commercial) to summary judgment on Cora Beals’s complaint seeking compensatory damages and counsel fees on the basis of allegations that Commercial had refused to consider *190and to pay her underinsurance claim fairly and promptly and instead forced her to proceed to arbitration. A Superior Court judge allowed Commercial’s summary judgment motion on the ground that because Beals could have and should have amended her complaint for arbitration to include her present allegations of…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Heacock v. HeacockMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1988
- Clegg v. ButlerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1997
- Porn v. National Grange Mutual InsuranceCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1996
- Miles v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1992
- Blanchette v. School Committee of WestwoodMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1998
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- Shealey v. Federal InsuranceDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 2012
- Sullivan v. Commerce InsuranceMassachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · 2011
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