ASTRA USA, INC. v. BILDMAN; JOHANSSON

SJC-10361

455 Mass. 116 (2009)

ASTRA USA, INC. v. LARS P.E. BILDMAN; CARL-GUSTAF JOHANSSON & others, third-party defendants (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

October 5, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey S. Robbins (Joseph D. Lipchitz & A.W. Phinney, III, with him) for Astra USA, Inc.

Rebecca P. McIntyre & Michael D. Weisman for Lars P.E. Bildman.

David E. McCraw, of New York, & Jonathan M. Albano, Carol E. Head, & Shuan Lue, for Globe Newspaper Company, Inc., amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, & BOTSFORD, JJ.


MARSHALL, C.J.

A Superior Court jury found Lars P.E. Bildman liable to his former employer, Astra USA, Inc. (Astra),3 for fraud, conversion, waste of corporate assets, breach of fiduciary duty, and sexual harassment of Astra employees, and awarded Astra damages in the aggregate amount of $1,040,812. The same jury found Astra not liable to Bildman for breach of a 1993 employment agreement between the parties (employment agreement), but...

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