Insurance Workers Compensation

COUNSELORS AT LAW

Edgewater Office Park

*** ********* ***** - ***** ***

Wakefield, MA 01880

David G. Shay, Managing Partner Telephone: 781-***-****

Edward M. Moriarty, Jr. Direct Dial: 781-***-****

James L. O Brien (1949-2003) Facsimile: 781-***-****

Ellen H. Sullivan * E-Mail: *******@**********.***

James E. Ramsey Web Address: www.moriartywc.com

Joseph R. Conte

Paul T. Fisher (1946-2004)

Joseph M. Spinale *

Thomas F. Finn

Of Counsel

Sheila S. Cunningham

Gregory M. Iudice

Christopher L. Maclachlan

*Also admitted in NH

FIRM RESUME

Moriarty & Associates, P.C. is an A/V-rated insurance defense firm concentrating

exclusively in workers compensation law. The firm provides specialized,

comprehensive, and experienced legal representation and advice to national, regional, and

Massachusetts insurers, self-insurers, third party administrators, and self-insurance

groups.

PARTNERS

EDWARD M. MORIARTY, JR.: born Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 12, 1953;

admitted to bar, 1979, Massachusetts and U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts.

Education: Northeastern University (BA, Magna Cum Laude; Phi Kappa Phi; Pi Sigma

Alpha, Department Honors, 1976); Temple University (JD, 1979), Executive Editor of

The Jurist, 1978-1979, Author: "Prosecuting the System: An Interview with F. Lee

Bailey," 16 Criminal Law Bulletin 1, 1980.

Member: Massachusetts Bar Association; Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys;

Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association; Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational

Safety and Health; Defense Research Institute; American Bar Association; Council on

Litigation Management.

Work Highlights: Frequent lecturer at legal education and workers compensation

insurance seminars, including: Effective Cross-Examination of an Employee at a

Workers Compensation Hearing; Mass Continuing Legal Education, February, 2010;

One Beacon Insurance Company, Massachusetts Workers Compensation Practice and

ALSO LOCATED:

340 Main Street, Suite 307, Worcester, MA 01608

Telephone No. 781-***-**** Fax No. 508-***-****

Procedure, June, 2010; Massachusetts Workers Compensation Practice and

Procedure, Sterling Education Services, October, 2010; and Massachusetts Workers

Compensation Underwriting Opportunities, Crum & Forster, October, 2010.

Ratings: A/V Martindale Hubbell 2011 and Martindale Hubbell Bar Register of

Preeminent Lawyers 2011.

Public and Bar Service: Attorney Moriarty is a lifetime member of the Massachusetts Bar

Foundation and regularly sits on its Annual Northeast Region Committee for distribution

of MBF funds to Massachusetts non-profit legal organizations. Attorney Moriarty is a

former member of the Salem, Massachusetts Zoning Board of Appeals, 2003-2006,

where he authored many decisions granting and denying special permit and variance

requests and adjudicating appeals of Building Commissioner rulings. Attorney Moriarty

is also a volunteer at and charitable donor to the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Salem,

and was a National Boys and Girls Club Jeremiah Milbank Society distinguished donor

2009.

JAMES L. O'BRIEN: (1949 2003) born Stoneham, Massachusetts, August 8, 1949;

admitted to bar, 1979, Massachusetts; deceased December 13, 2003.

Education: University of Massachusetts, Amherst (BA, 1972, MS, Labor Relations,

1975); Suffolk University Law School (JD, 1979).

Member: Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys and

American Bar Association.

DAVID G. SHAY: born Melrose, Massachusetts, May 28, 1956; admitted to bar, 1989,

Massachusetts; admitted U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, 1991; admitted

U.S. Supreme Court, 1993.

Education: University of Maryland (AA, 1977); Suffolk University (BS, Criminal

Justice, Cum Laude, 1979); Northeastern University (MS, Criminal Justice, 1983);

Suffolk University Law School (JD, 1989).

Member: Massachusetts Bar Association.

Military Service: U.S. Army, 1974-1977.

DIRECTORS

ELLEN HARRINGTON SULLIVAN: born Springfield, Massachusetts, December 30,

1942, admitted to bar, 1996, Massachusetts and U.S. District Court, District of

Massachusetts; 2008, New Hampshire.

Education: Emmanuel College (BA 1964, National Honor Historical Society);

Massachusetts School of Law (JD, 1996, Judicial Internship Selection).

Member: Massachusetts Bar Association, American Bar Association and New

Hampshire Bar Association.

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JAMES E. RAMSEY: born Worcester, Massachusetts, February 22, 1968; admitted to

bar January 3, 1996, United States Supreme Court, Massachusetts and Connecticut State

Courts, and U.S. District Court, Districts of Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Education: Northeastern University (B.S. 1991, Summa Cum Laude); Northeastern

University (M.S. 1992); Suffolk University Law School (J.D. 1995); two American

Jurisprudence Awards.

Member: Massachusetts Bar Association, Past Co-Chairman Worker s Compensation

Committee, Worcester County Bar Association.

Work Highlights: 1995-1996 Judicial Clerkship, Connecticut Superior Court; Ten years

worker s compensation and general liability defense practice; Recorded insurance

opinion, Baker s Case, 55 Mass. App. Ct. 628, 773 N.E.2d 466 (2002); Frequent speaker

for both Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. and Massachusetts Bar

Association, including featured presenter at Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education,

Inc., November 21, 2003, on Workers Compensation Case Law and Legislative

Update. Past Co-Chairman Massachusetts Bar Association s Sub Committee on

Workers Compensation.

JOSEPH R. CONTE: born Worcester, Massachusetts, June 9, 1962; admitted to bar,

1995, Massachusetts; admitted U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts1995.

Education: College of the Holy Cross (B.A., 1985); Southern New England School of

Law (JD, 1993).

Member: Worcester and Massachusetts Bar Associations.

Work Highlights: Staff Assistant to U.S. Congress, 1985-1987; Staff Assistant and

Counsel to State Senate, 1987-1996; Counsel, Department of Revenue Office of Child

Support Enforcement, 1996-1997; Counsel, Eastern Casualty Insurance Company, 1997-

2002; Assistant City Solicitor, City of Worcester, 2002-2003; Counsel, Kemper

Insurance Companies; Moriarty & Associates, 2003 to date.

ASSOCIATES

PAUL T. FISHER: (1946 2004) born Winthrop, Massachusetts, May 20, 1946,

admitted to bar, 1982, Massachusetts.

Education: Boston State College (BS Ed. 1968); Boston State College (M. Ed., 1973);

Suffolk University Law School (JD 1982).

Member: Massachusetts Bar Association and Lynn Bar Association.

JOSEPH M. SPINALE: born Everett, Massachusetts, November 2, 1967; admitted to

bar, 1997, Massachusetts; 2005, New Hampshire.

Education: Norwich University (B.A., 1989); Franklin Pierce Law Center (JD, 1997).

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Member: Massachusetts Bar and New Hampshire Bar.

THOMAS F. FINN: born Medford, Massachusetts, May 19, 1963; admitted to bar,

1989, Massachusetts and U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts.

Education: Suffolk University (BS, Political Science, Cum Laude, 1985); Suffolk

University Law School (JD, Cum Laude, 1988).

Member: Massachusetts Bar Association.

Military: U.S. Army, 1990-1996; U.S. Army Reserves, 1996-Present.

Work Highlights: Seven years active duty U.S. Army, serving as Labor Counselor, Fort

Bragg, North Carolina; Trial Defense Service with the 82nd Airborne Division; and Chief

of Administrative and Civil Law; Persian Gulf, Desert Shield and Desert Storm as Chief,

Claims, XVIII Airborne Corps and as a criminal defense attorney with the Trial Defense

Service; active with the U.S. Army Reserves, Lieutenant Colonel. Workers'

Compensation Trust Fund with the Department of Industrial Accidents in 1995.

OF COUNSEL

SHEILA S. CUNNINGHAM: born Scranton, Pennsylvania 1958; admitted to

Massachusetts bar; 1983.

Education: University of Scranton (B.S., Cum Laude, 1980); Suffolk University School

of Law (J.D., 1983).

Member: Massachusetts Bar; U.S. District Court District of Massachusetts.

GREGORY M. IUDICE: born Melrose, MA, 1975; admitted Massachusetts bar 2002.

Education: Fordham University (B.A., 1997); Suffolk University Law School (J.D. Cum

Laude, 2002)

Member: Massachusetts Bar.

CHRISTOPHER L. MACLACHLAN: born Erie, Pennsylvania, August 12, 1955;

admitted to bar, 1987, Massachusetts and U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts.

Education: Amherst College (BA, 1977, Cum Laude); Suffolk University Law School

(JD, 1987).

Member: Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Work Highlights: Counsel to the Reviewing Board, Massachusetts Department of

Industrial Accidents, 1995-2012; Presenter at administrative judges trainings, 2005-

2012. Chaired Massachusetts Bar Association Subcommittee on Workers Compensation

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Regulations, 2006-2007, which proposed changes to 452 C.M.R. 1.00, Adjudicatory

Rules, effective 2008.

Private Counsel Division, Committee for Public Counsel Services Appellate Panel, 2002-

present, Commonwealth v. Narcisse, 457 Mass. 1 (2010); Commonwealth v. Mubdi, 456

Mass. 385 (2010).

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS: ABF Freight; Acadia Insurance Company; American

Compensation Insurance Company; American International Group of Insurance

Companies; AON Risk Services; Broadspire; CNA Insurance Company; Cannon

Cochran Management Services, Inc.; CCMSI; Chartis Insurance; Chubb & Son Group of

Insurance Companies; Chubb Services Corporation; Consumer Value Stores, Inc.;

Constitution State Services; Crawford & Company Risk Management Services; Crum &

Forester; CNA Claims Plus; FutureComp; GAB Robins; Gallagher Bassett Services;

Great West Casualty; Guard Insurance Group; The Hanover Group of Insurance

Companies; Helmsman Management Services, Inc.; HVAC Compensation Corporation;

Innovative Risk Management, Inc.; Kohl s Department Stores; Lewis Tree Services;

Liberty Mutual Insurance Company; Lumber Insurance Group; Lumbermen s

Underwriters Alliance; Massachusetts Auto Industries Self-Insurance Group;

Massachusetts Electronics Industries Self-Insurance Group; Massachusetts Interlocal

Insurance Association; Merchants Insurance Group; O Connor Constructors; Old

Republic Insurance; One Beacon Insurance; Princeton Insurance Company; RTW, Inc.;

Red Cross Blood Donor Services, Northeast Region; Reliance National Insurance

Company; Risk Enterprise Management; Ryder Claims Services Corporation; St. Paul

Fire & Marine Insurance Company; Sedgwick Claims Management Services; Sentry

Group of Insurance Companies; Shaw's Supermarkets; Shell Oil; The Hartford Insurance;

The Midlands company; Worcester Insurance Co.; York Insurance Services Group;

Zurich North America.

REFERENCES: Eastern Bank

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