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SPELLMAN v. SHAWMUT WOODWORKING & SUPPLY, INC.; EAST COAST FIREPROOFING, INC.

445 Mass. 675 (2006)

DAVID J. SPELLMAN, SR., & another v. SHAWMUT WOODWORKING & SUPPLY, INC.; EAST COAST FIREPROOFING, INC., third-party defendant.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 3, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Glynn (William T. Harrington with him) for East Coast Fireproofing, Inc.

Andrew S. Wainwright for the plaintiffs.

Mark B. Lavoie for Shawmut Woodworking & Supply, Inc.

Myles W. McDonough, for Associated Subcontractors of Massachusetts, Inc., amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: Marshall, C.J., Greaney, Ireland, Spina, Cowin, & Cordy, JJ.

GREANEY, J.

We transferred this case here on our own motion to consider the correctness of certain pretrial decisions and related questions reserved and reported by a Superior Court judge to the Appeals Court. The report pertains to the validity and enforceability of an assignment of a general contractor's claims (for contractual indemnification and breach of contract) against its subcontractor to an employee of the subcontractor who was injured on the job. We conclude...

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