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SWIFT v. AMERICAN MUTUAL INS. CO. OF BOSTON

399 Mass. 373 (1987)

504 N.E.2d 621

BARBARA SWIFT & others vs. AMERICAN MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF BOSTON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

March 9, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Janice J. Cook for American Mutual Insurance Company of Boston.

Eric P. Finamore (Thomas E. Cargill, Jr., & Kerry Paul Choi with him) for the plaintiffs.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, ABRAMS, & NOLAN, JJ.

ABRAMS, J.

At issue in this case is whether the family of an employee may maintain an action against the employer's workers' compensation insurer for the insurer's failure to warn the employee of unsafe working conditions. The plaintiffs — the wife and minor children of Robert W. Swift, a former employee2 of Art Cement Products Co., Inc. (Art Cement)3 —...

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