Biography | Cheryl Mancuso

Cheryl Mancuso represents individuals and businesses in all aspects of civil insurance defense pre-litigation and litigation matters. She has more than 24 years of litigation practice experience in the defense of claims related to transportation, including emergency incident response matters, complex torts, general liability, premises liability, and personal injury litigation. Current and former clients include national and regional transportation companies, a national car rental chain, snowplow operators, landscaping companies, hotels and hospitality groups, commercial and residential property owners, management companies, and personal automobile operators.

Cheryl’s extensive insurance defense experience ranges from work at small litigation firms to an in-house complex counsel position at a global insurance company where she served both personal and commercial clients.

Before attending law school, Cheryl earned a master’s degree in criminal justice. She worked as a victim-witness assistance coordinator for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and as a compliance investigator and program specialist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in her home city of Chicago, Illinois.

Education

New England School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2001)
- Senior Technical Coordinating Editor, New England Law Review
University of Cincinnati (M.S. Criminal Justice, 1993)
University of Dayton (B.S. Criminal Justice, magna cum laude, 1992)

Bar Admissions

Massachusetts

Court Admissions

Supreme Court of Massachusetts
U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts

Cheryl Mancuso

Mancuso & Kim Obtain Summary Judgment and Contractual Indemnity for Property Manager in Personal Injury Case

Cheryl Mancuso (Of Counsel-Boston, MA) and Anne Kim (Associate-Boston, MA) defended a property management company for a logistics facility in a personal injury case in the Suffolk County Superior Court in Boston. The plaintiff alleged that he was injured while working at the facility when an object fell on his head, asserting claims of negligence for failure to install preventative safety features within the facility. Co-defendants asserted cross-claims for contribution against the firm’s client. Cheryl and Anne moved for summary judgment as to the plaintiff’s claims and co-defendants’ cross-claims, and affirmatively moved for summary judgment in favor of the firm’s client as to its cross-claims against the co-defendant tenant of the facility for breach of contract and contractual indemnity for the tenant’s refusal to defend and indemnify the firm’s client under the terms of the commercial lease. The plaintiff and co-defendants/plaintiffs-in-cross-claim did not oppose the motion, though the tenant that was the target of the firm’s client’s cross-claims did oppose. Summary judgment was granted as to all claims against the firm’s client, and as to all cross-claims asserted against the tenant, thereby obligating the co-defendant tenant to pay the attorney’s fees incurred on behalf of the firm’s client in defending the claim.

Cheryl Mancuso and Anne V. Kim