When I was growing up back in the seventies, one of the highlights of the end of the year was that the rock stations would all compile lists of the top songs of the year, and then play them all in one long countdown – often without any ads! There was no Spotify yet, or
In the first of my two posts in this series discussing lessons I have learned over the past thirty years of practice as to how to avoid incurring Chapter 93A liability as a result of claims handling or settlement decisions, I discussed the centrality of the factual record of the claims handling and the necessity
In my last post on the lessons that I have learned in 30 years of representing insurers in Chapter 93A cases, I discussed the crucial – almost outcome determinative – role in such a case against an insurer of the actual facts of the underlying claim and the manner in which the claim was
I have counseled insurers and represented them in litigation on bad faith claims handling and Chapter 93A cases for pretty much the entire modern era of insurer bad faith law in Massachusetts. My very first trial as a first chair was a Chapter 93A bad faith failure to settle claim against a major insurer (I