Sterilite Corp. v. Continental Casualty Co.

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• concluding that prejudgment interest under Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 231, section 6C ought be calculated from the various dates that Sterilite paid its legal bills and was deprived of the use of its money
• discussing Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 231, § 6C and the Legislature’s intent to eliminate -the common law distinction between liquidated and unliquidated damages
• denying prejudgment interest on attorney’s fees prior to payment of those fees
• function of court to construe statute as written and not to read into it provisions Legislature did not put there
• prejudgment interest under G. L. c. 231, § 6C, paid on both liquidated and unliquidated damages
• court will construe language of statute as written and will not add statutory provision Legislature did not see fit to include

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