Insurance companies in Massachusetts use the Safe Driver Insurance Plan (SDIP) to calculate automobile insurance premiums. The intent of this plan is to encourage safe driving by rewarding drivers with clean records and penalizing drivers whose records contain surchargeable events such as at fault accidents, DUI convictions, and convictions for reckless driving, negligent operation, and […]
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Law enforcement officials across New England are being trained on how to spot license fraud. Saugus, Mass. police officer James Scott has been providing classes to police officers, corrections officials, and other officials regarding the tools that he uses to detect impostors, illegal aliens, and others who have fraudulently obtained Massachusetts Driver’s Licenses. In most
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If you have received an administrative hearing letter from the Suspension Department of the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles, you should contact a lawyer to discuss your legal rights and the availability of legal representation before the Registry. These letters are sent out when adverse action against a person’s driver’s license or motor vehicle registration
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If you are not a United States Citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident of the United States, the Registry will likely refuse to issue you a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) or allow you to renew your existing CDL. The RMV will not grant you a Commercial Learner’s Permit. Also, whenever a driver renews his or her
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My law office routinely gets inquiries from individuals who are seeking to have Operating Under the Influence charges removed from their records. These charges have prevented them from obtaining employment and passing background checks required to drive for Transportation Network Companies in Massachusetts such as Uber and Lyft. Unfortunately, the Registry is required to maintain
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Clients who have received suspension or revocation notices from MassDOT who have never been licensed in Massachusetts will often ask how the Registry of Motor Vehicles can revoke a license which it never issued. The answer is that that the RMV is not necessarily revoking the person’s driver’s license. Instead, the Registry is revoking the
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Many times in Massachusetts first offense drunk driving cases are resolved with a continuance without a guilty finding which is commonly referred to as a CWOF. Previously for breathalyzer refusal purposes, those operating under the influence cases which were resolved with CWOFs instead of guilty findings were not treated as prior convictions when calculating the
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The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles now requires Commercial Drivers License (CDL) applicants to be lawful permanent residents or United States Citizens prior to the issuance of a CDL. Lawful permanent residents of the United States are also referred to as resident aliens or green card holders. It is the Registry’s policy that a work
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I received this inquiry from a gentleman who made the mistake of representing himself in court on a DUI charge. Long story short, the courts did not have my driving record/criminal record in front of them before I appeared before the court, so they tried me as a first time OUI offender. I didn’t have
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