Personal Injury: Sexual Abuse
Representative Cases
- Mediated lawsuit against public high school and the school district in connection with the repeated sexual assault and grooming over time of the tennis team’s star player by the popular tennis coach. Plaintiff claimed that the school district was negligent in its hiring and supervision of the tennis coach.
- Handled sexual abuse of a middle school young girl by her roommate due to the lack of supervision by the residential home.
- Mediated claim brought by a female patient against the private hospital for its doctor who masturbated behind the female patient on several occasions. The defense team brought the doctor, medical practice counsel, private counsel and criminal counsel. The defense team also insisted on an in-person mediation.
- Handled Sonoma University case involving a male student who videotaped without consent his sexual intercourse with his girlfriend who was passed out on his bed.
- Handled a case of a 13-year-old student whose significant self-harm, suicidal ideation, and depression led her for overnight hospitalization at the MGH, followed by a stint in a residential home. There, she was subjected to peer-on-peer abuse and forced into sexual acts with her older roommate due to lack of supervision.
- Mediated the case of a tennis rockstar who was sexually molested by his high school tennis coach when the statute of limitations was reopened. Defendant public school district had notice of the tennis coach’s molestation of many students.