PRACTICES
OVERVIEW
Chris is an Associate in the Subrogation Department. His areas of expertise include subrogation and litigation matters.
Chris advises in a range of matters, with a focus on complex subrogation recovery actions. He maintains an unrestricted Massachusetts Construction Supervisor’s License. Over the years, Chris has also received OSHA Construction Safety training.
Chris has worked on cases involving property losses arising from catastrophic events such as fires, floods, explosions, collapse events, chemical misapplications, construction defects, product defects, and various machinery, equipment, and infrastructure breakdowns. He has represented a broad range of clients in general litigation and commercial disputes and personal matters, including premises liability, product liability, personal injury, medical malpractice, business claims, breach of contract, breach of warranty, and bad faith causes of action, and SIU investigations.
Prior to his legal career, Chris spent nearly a decade working as a residential contractor on oceanfront and historic homes.
Recognition and Involvement
Recognition & Involvement
Super Lawyers Rising Star 2013-2017
Super Lawyer 2022-2023
Credentials
Bar and Court Admissions
Massachusetts
U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont
Education
Suffolk University Law School, J.D., 2007
University of Massachusetts, BA, magna cum laude, 2002
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
- Represented a subrogating insurer in a matter that involved a public utility which did not adhere to its own published safety procedures, resulting in a large commercial building fire, leading to a seven-figure settlement during litigation
- Represented a subrogating insurer in a matter that involved a defective conveyor belt supplied to a snack food manufacturer that was inappropriate for the degignated application and caught fire and damaged the manufacturing facility and its operations, leading to a seven figure settlement during litigation
- Represented a subrogating insurer in a matter that involved a cast concrete cornice that detached from a historic downtown Boston building due to an engineering folly during reroofing efforts, leading to a seven-figure settlement during litigation
- Represented a subrogating insurer in a matter that involved a truck loaded with bananas that overturned and hit a gas main on a historic Massachusetts tavern, burning it to the ground, leading to a seven-figure settlement during litigation
- Represented a subrogating insurer in a matter that involved a roof collapse at a warehouse used to store and age cheese products, leading to a seven figure settlement prior to litigation
- Represented a subrogating insurer in a matter that involved a chemical misapplication of descaling solvents that led to corrosion and the failure of rooftop water tanks at a Massachusetts Hospital, leading to a substantial six figure settlement prior to litigation
- Represented a subrogating insurer in a matter that involved a release of fuel oil at a residential dwelling resulting in a massive mitigation effort, and leading to a substantial six figure settlement prior to litigation
- Represented a subrogating insurer in a matter that involved faulty connectors on solar panels leading to a residential fire, and leading to a substantial six figure settlement prior to litigation
- Represented a subrogating insurer in a matter that involved a contractor failing to properly tarp a roof in advance of a nor’easter storm, and leading to a substantial six figure settlement prior to litigation
- Represented Contractor to a Defense verdict in the Massachusetts Superior Court following a four-day trial relating to six-figure demand of owner acting as general contractor under the Homeowners License Exemption to the Massachusetts Building Code
- Represented Contractor in a coverage dispute leading to declaratory judgment matter in federal court resulting in a judgment on the pleadings and an award of attorney fees and costs of defense