Main Office Location

Boston MA Office

Areas of Practice

+ Appellate
+ Insurance Coverage Litigation and Arbitrations

All Office Locations

Boston MA

Rick has more than forty years of insurance coverage and litigation, both trial and appellate, experience. He represents insurance companies and other insurance and self-insured organizations in both first-party and third-party coverage, bad-faith, extracontractual liability, policy interpretation and policy drafting matters. Rick is an instructor and frequent speaker on insurance law and insurance-related topics, and has written numerous articles that have been published in insurance and legal publications, including successive reviews and analyses of the standard Massachusetts Automobile Insurance Policy. He is also the author of a chapter (“Insurance and Loss Prevention”) in Advising a Massachusetts Business (MCLE New England, 1st ed. 2011).

Noteworthy Accomplishments, Honors & Awards

  • Successfully represented insurance companies in state and federal trial and appellate courts
  • Listed in several Who’s Who publications, and has been recognized as a Massachusetts “Super Lawyer” for each year from 2005 through 2017 and as a New England “Super Lawyer” for each year from 2007 through 2017.

AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell

Featured Blogs, Resources & News

  • Massachusetts
  • United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
  • American Bar Association (Tort and Insurance Practice Section)
  • Massachusetts Bar Association, Insurance Committee, Past Chair, current
  • Member and Budget and Finance Committee
  • Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association
  • Defense Research Institute
  • Massachusetts Bar Foundation, Fellow
  • J.D., cum laude — Harvard Law School
  • B.A., cum laude, general honors — American University