In O’Connor v. Ford Motor Co., the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois addressed whether a Massachusetts Chapter 93A claim could proceed after the court had dismissed the plaintiff’s fraud allegations.
In Kirby v. Mousis, the Massachusetts Appeals Court affirmed judgment for the defendants on the plaintiffs’ Chapter 93A, § 11 claim and reinforced that failed business ventures and unmet funding promises generally do not, without more, constitute “unfair or deceptive”
Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV recently dismissed a plaintiff’s claim under Massachusetts General Law Chapter 93A § 11 because the claim did not arise “primarily and substantially” within Massachusetts. In Mark Breiner DDS, LLC v. BTL Indus., a holistic health
In Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency v. Bass, the Land Court rejected the defendants’ belated attempt to assert claims under Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 93A against Mass Housing, concluding that the allegations failed as a matter of law and would not
In a pair of cases, the District of Massachusetts addressed personal jurisdiction in the context of Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 93A.
In the first case, Mayur LLC v. Freedom Foods, LLC, No. 1:25-cv-11160-JEK, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 250329 (D. Mass.
In Massachusetts business litigation, Chapter 93A claims often trail behind an ordinary breach of contract claim. Typically, however, a mere breach of contract claim does not give rise to a Chapter 93A claim. In order to do so, a party
In Gretzky v. AmGuard Insurance Co., the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts evaluated how insurers facing a 176D demand letter post-judgment may limit exposure under the safe-harbor provisions of Chapter 93A, § 9(3). The court reaffirmed
On Sept. 22, 2025, Judge Sorokin of the District of Massachusetts dismissed all claims against Harvard College arising from a former faculty member’s suit against the university.
Plaintiff James Wines kept an appointment as an Instructor of Psychiatry at Harvard
MCR Labs, Inc., a cannabis testing laboratory, sued Analytics Labs, LLC (and others) under Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 93A, Section 11 for allegedly falsely reporting elevated “THC Potency Levels” and lower cannabis contamination or “fail” rates to lure MCR’s customers
In Robles v. Selective Insurance Co. of America, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 204595 (D. Mass. Sept. 2, 2025), Magistrate Judge Hennessy issued a report and recommendation granting in part and denying in part Selective’s motion for judgment on the pleadings
