John P. Ryan

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Senior Partner

  Firm Name

  Sloane and Walsh, LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  REPRESENTATIVE CASES: Prosecuted appeals in the Appellate Division of the Massachusetts District Court, the Massachusetts Appeals Court, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
  the First Circuit Court of Appeals. Representative appeals include: Agis v. Howard Johnson, 371 Mass. 140 (1976) (case of first impression in Massachusetts establishing the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress.)
  Monadnock Display Fireworks, Inc. v. Andover, 388 Mass. 153 (1983) (case of first impression in Massachusetts imposing the doctrine of implied contractual indemnity upon a town in the setting of a municipal contract where the town had failed to provide adequate police
  fire support for a holiday fireworks display ultimately resulting in a young child picking up an undetonated incendiary device which subsequently exploded
  traumatically amputated the child's h
  .)
  Chas. T. Main, Inc. v. Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, 406 Mass. 862 (1990) (case of first impression in Massachusetts interpreting the concept of 'claims made' coverage in the setting of professional liability insurance coverage
  holding that a failure to timely report a claim within the designated time period of a claims made policy was a condition precedent to coverage
  voided coverage for the insured, even in the absence of prejudice.)
  New Engl
  Tea & Coffee v. Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, 54 Mass. App. Ct. 903 (2002) (successfully obtained affirmance of trial court's allowance of summary judgment determining that insurer had no duty to either defend or indemnify claim of defamation.)
  Doe No. 4 v. Levine, 77 Mass. App. Ct. 117 (2010) (case of first impression in Massachusetts interpreting the definition of when a cause of action 'arises' for purposes of asserting the historical defense of absolute charitable immunity despite the fact that the cause of action 'accrued' after the abolition of the absolute defense.)
  Rhodes v. AIG Domestic Claims, Inc., 461 Mass. 486 (2012) (Retained to argue on behalf of the defendant before the Supreme Judicial Court with regard to the proper measure of punitive damages in the setting of a trial court ruling that the defendant had violated Chapter 93A
  176D.)
  Roe No. 1 v. Children's Hospital Medical Center, 469 Mass. 710 (2014) (Co-counsel with Gail M. Ryan in successful appeal affirming a trial court order dismissing a claim against the defendant for allegedly failing to protect out of state pediatric patients from the alleged abuse by a pediatrician formerly employed by the defendant.)