Berman & Simmons News Articles

  • JODI L. NOFSINGER, ESQ. ADMITTED TO AMERICAN COLLEGE OF TRIAL LAWYERS

    Press Release Jodi L. Nofsinger, Esq., an attorney at Berman & Simmons, was inducted on March 8, 2014, as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal associations in America. Jodi joins fellow shareholders, Julian L. Sweet, Esq. and Steven D. Silin, Esq., in her membership to the College. She is only the third […]

  • Knox County Jury Awards $85,000 In Which Both Parties Died Before Trial

    A Knox County jury awarded $85,000 to the Estate of a Vinalhaven woman who fell through a trap door in a house she had just rented.  Mary Ellen Foisy was cleaning before moving her belongings in when she fell through a hidden trap door in the master bedroom closet. She landed on the cellar floor below, suffering four broken ribs and a broken wrist that required surgery. The suit was against the landlord for leaving the trap door in place without warning Ms. Foisy about it.

  • Injured Worker Awarded $144,500

    An Androscoggin County Superior Court jury this week awarded nearly $150,000 to a Maine man who was injured while working at a biomass electricity generating facility in Livermore Falls. 

  • WOMAN AWARDED $525,000 IN VERDICT AGAINST STATE FARM

    On Thursday, January 31st, a Kennebec County Superior Court jury awarded an Aroostook County woman $525,000 on her claim against State Farm Insurance Company.  The woman, Lynne Porter, 56, of Patten, was injured on January 16, 2009, when her pick-up truck was rear-ended on Route 1 in Houlton.  Porter was driving her elderly father home from the hospital when an unknown driver drove through a stop sign on a side street directly into Porter’s path.  Porter stopped quickly to avoid colliding with the car, but a SUV driven by Sheila Murchie skidded into the back of Porter&r

  • JURY FINDS AGAINST TRUCKING COMPANY

    A jury in Oxford County Superior Court yesterday awarded $310,000 to the children of Richard Ray, who was killed in a three-way collision on Route 26 in West Paris, Maine on November 23, 2009.   The collision occurred when Tricia Ann Beretz fell asleep at the wheel, causing her Acura to drift into the oncoming lane and into the path of a tractor-trailer truck operated by Midwest-Price Company, LLC, a forest-products business located in West Paris.   As the tractor-trailer driver neared the Acura, he slammed on the brakes, but it was not in time. The Acura