Trinidad v. Pilgrim Insurance

This is a Dist./Mun. Cts. R. A. D. A., Rule 8C, appeal on the record of proceedings by the plaintiff of the allowance of the defendant’s Mass. R. Civ. R, Rule 56, motion for summary judgment. “Appellate review of the granting or denying of a summary judgment motion involves the same standard employed initially by the trial judge.” Pioneer Valley Fed. Credit Union v. Soja, 2002 Mass. App. Div. 193, quoting Marlyn Corp. v. Charter Oak Fire Ins. Co., 1999 Mass. App. Div. 62, 63. We are “confined to an examination of the materials before the court at the time the rulings were made.” Herbert A.…