Steve is an experienced business litigator and one of the founding partners of Torres, Scammon, Hincks & Day, LLP. With a track record for delivering outstanding results in complex business disputes spanning over 26 years, he brings a no-nonsense and results-oriented approach to litigation. Steve helps his clients achieve successful outcomes that meet their objectives and provides cost-efficient litigation results. Drawing upon his extensive experience in the litigation trenches, Steve has achieved excellent outcomes for clients through all phases of the litigation process whether by trial, appellate practice, arbitration, mediation or administrative proceedings.
In addition, Steve counsels his clients on legal matters impacting their businesses and provides guidance on issues including various contracts, NDAs, insurance policies, licensing agreements and other intellectual property issues, corporate compliance, leases, employment agreements and operating agreements, among other matters.
Business Litigation
Steve possesses expertise in a number of subjects and industries while also maintaining general litigation skills that are valued in business disputes. He has represented clients in different types of complex commercial disputes including those involving:
- Breach of Contract
- Breaches of Fiduciary Duty
- Shareholder Disputes
- Commercial Transactions
- Unfair Business Practices
- Employment Litigation
- Licensing Agreements
- Professional Service Fee Disputes
- Commercial Construction and Real Estate Development
Insurance
Drawing upon his unique qualifications within the insurance industry and over 30 years of experience addressing complex insurance issues, Steve advises clients with respect to all facets of insurance matters. He has litigated and arbitrated scores of disputes implicating insurance, reinsurance and regulatory matters and participated in several statutory reference proceedings as both counsel and as a referee. Steve advises policyholders, insurers, reinsurers, agents/brokers and others engaged in the insurance industry concerning:
- GL, D&O, EPLI, Cyber, Excess and Professional Policies
- First Party Property Coverages
- Regulatory Matters
- Bad Faith Claims
Steve obtained the insurance industry’s prestigious Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation in 2008 after successfully completing the eight exams and other requirements for the designation and also obtained his Associate in Claims (AIC) designation in 1994. He is active in the CPCU Society, having served as the President of the Boston Chapter in 2016 and previously as President-Elect and Vice President (2014-2016). Steve was a member of the Boston Chapter board of directors from 2010 through 2017.
A small sample of Steve’s successful litigation results include:
Trials:
- Defended company CEO in bench trial in the Business Litigation Session of Suffolk Superior Court in 2025 against claims alleging a “freezeout” by the company’s minority shareholders. Claims against the client were resolved favorably after the first week of trial.
- Obtained an award of 100% of damages sought in a fee dispute following a bench trial in December 2023.
- Achieved a jury verdict on behalf of clients on breach of fiduciary duty and implied covenant claims in Middlesex Superior Court in the fall of 2022. Judgment entered in clients’ favor in the amount of $1,319,556 and was later affirmed on appeal.
- Steve procured a jury verdict for plaintiffs in October 2017 of 100% of the clients’ claimed damages of $440,000. As the jury also found in Steve’s clients’ favor on their Chapter 93A claim for unfair business practices, the damages were doubled and attorneys’ fees were awarded. After he successfully defended the judgment on appeal, the final judgment amount exceeded $1.6 million.
Appeals:
- In October of 2025 the Massachusetts Appeals Court affirmed a jury verdict in Bonarrigo, et al. v. Artcan, LLC, et al. on breach of fiduciary and implied covenant claims. Execution subsequently issued in Steve’s clients’ favor for over $1.8 million.
- Defended determinations by client’s committees in an administrative proceeding titled Point Insurance Inc. v. Division of Insurance decided at the Division of Insurance and later at Suffolk Superior Court. In November of 2021 the Appeals Court affirmed judgment in client’s favor.
- Preserved a trial victory before the Massachusetts Court of Appeals that included double damages and fees in Transwestern RBJ v. American Pride Seafoods and in September of 2019 was awarded all appellate legal fees.
- Secured appellate victories before the First Circuit Court of Appeals obtaining the reversal of the district court’s dismissal for lack of personal jurisdiction in C.W. Downer & Co. v. Bioriginal.
Summary Judgment:
- Secured summary judgment for clients in state superior court in Point Insurance Inc. v. Division of Insurance (insurance regulatory proceeding); in Shephard v. Lizak (landowner’s liability); in Auciello Iron Works, Inc. v. Travelers (bad faith claims); in Mooney v. Sky Zone (products liability); and obtained summary judgment and payment in full on behalf of client in federal court in Nextsun Energy Littleton, LLC v. Acadia Insurance Co. (insurance coverage dispute).
Early Dismissal:
- Obtained dismissal through motions to dismiss on behalf of a client in state superior court in Cichocki v. JJ Manning Auctioneers and for three clients in federal court actions: R&B Splicer Systems, Inc. Woodland Industries, Inc. (breach of contract); Thomen-Brown v. Wilder (wage act claim); and Progressive Insurance v. Colvin’s Inc. (products liability).
Education
- B.S., cum laude, from Providence College (1992)
- J.D., magna cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School (2000)
Bar and Court Admissions
- Massachusetts Bar
- United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
- First Circuit Court of Appeals
Prior Experience
- Associate and Of Counsel, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. (2000-2012)
- Special Assistant District Attorney, Middlesex County
- St. Paul Fire & Marine (1992-1999)
Awards, Publications, and Presentations
- Massachusetts Super Lawyers, Business Litigation 2014 – 2026; Top 100 2019, 2020, 2022
