About Sean Flaherty
Sean Flaherty joined Keches Law Group, P.C. in 2004 with a background in the construction industry. He is a former member of the Local 7 Steel and Ironworkers Union. Sean represents injured workers in all phases of workers’ compensation litigation including Conciliations, Conferences and Hearings before Administrative Law Judges at the Department of Industrial Accidents. He also handles Social Security Disability claims, as well as cases involving employment discrimination, sexual harassment and wrongful termination.
Before joining Keches Law Group, P.C., Sean interned with the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office. Attorney Flaherty is the past President of the Bristol Bar Association and on their Board of Directors since 2011; Co-Chair of the Workers’ Compensation Section of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys since 2012; President of the Taunton Bar Association since 2011; Vice President of Kids’ Chance of Massachusetts, Guest Professor at New England School of Law; Board of Directors at MassCOSH (Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health), and member of Workers’ Injury and Advocacy Group. Sean was named in 2018 Boston Magazine’s Super Lawyers edition as one of Massachusetts’ “Super Lawyers” and prior as “Rising Star”, 7 years in-a-row. He is also the recipient of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Excellence in The Law Award in 2011 and 2012.
Attorney Flaherty received his bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from Quinnipiac University. While at Quinnipiac University, he was named to the Phi Beta Kappa International Honor Society. Sean earned his law degree from New England School of Law and is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts. Education New England School of Law Quinnipiac University
Proven verdicts and settlements at Keches Law Group
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After winning a $26.6 million jury verdict for a union mason who fell through defective scaffolding on the Longfellow Bridge, Andrew Abraham of Keches Law Group returned to court and proved that Liberty Mutual's insurers willfully refused to investigate or settle a clear liability case, prompting a judge to double the compensatory judgment to over $91 million under Chapter 93A and 176D.
A Middlesex County jury awarded $26.6 million to union mason John Rooney, Jr. after he fell through a two-foot scaffold gap during the Longfellow Bridge rehabilitation and suffered seven spinal operations and permanent disability, with pre-judgment interest bringing the total compensatory judgment to roughly $45.5 million.
A Hampden County jury awarded $9.5 million to the adult daughters of Zoe Rosenthal, a 52-year-old Holyoke teacher fatally struck in a crosswalk by a visually impaired driver in 2017, in what attorneys described as a record non-economic wrongful-death verdict with adult heirs in Western Massachusetts.
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