Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC – a national deposition services provider favored by many defense firms in Massachusetts – paid a $2,000.00 settlement (for costs and attorney’s fees) for improper attempt at overcharging for deposition costs to plaintiff in a personal injury action. Although this matter was resolved very quickly (and thus keeping the costs and...Read More

Defendant BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER, INC. (BIDMC) paid $81,000.00 for attorneys’ fees, costs, and emotional distress damages, when suit was required just to get the patients’ complete medical records. Patient of the BIDMC system, who suspected medical malpractice and was still undergoing follow up care at other health care system, requested his records from...Read More

After extensive pre-suit investigation and service of demand under our Commonwealth’s both Mass. G. L. chapter 93A (Consumer Protection Act) and Mass. G. L. chapter 231, section 60L (the medical malpractice ‘protection’ act) Sobczak Law was able to obtain a successful settlement and recovery for a consumer of a local cosmetic surgery center, where the...Read More

In what could have been a case of first impression in our Commonwealth, Sobczak Law recovered $75,000 settlement for a patient of the Lahey health system at the Winchester Hospital for the needless scare they caused, that resulted in severe emotional distress. The claim was commenced as a negligence action, as well as negligent (and/or...Read More

Attorney Sobczak recovered $18,200 for a victim of a local car dealership, who after taking a deposition on an allegedly ‘new’ car switched it out for another one, which had previously failed the safety inspection. The customer initially brought the complaint directly to the Quirk dealership leadership, and even the Attorneys General’s office, but was...Read More

On March 9, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized and published two transformative rules that will give patients unprecedented safe, secure access to their health data. Combined with the Sobczak Law’s two 2019 wins at the Massachusetts Appeals Court, this makes it crystal clear that patients’ and consumers’ timely, affordable,...Read More

           Following the two Appeals Court victories last year, see Montanez v. 178 Lowell Street Operating Company LLC, 95 Mass. App. Ct. 699 (2019) (http://masscases.com/cases/app/95/95massappct699.html) and Pennington v. Steward Health Care Systems, LLC & others, 18-P-1153 (2019) ( https://casetext.com/case/pennington-matte-v-steward-health-care-sys ), health care providers in Massachusetts are finally following the controlling rules and regulations and providing...Read More

Attorney Sobczak obtained a tremendous win for Massachusetts customers, patients, and residents of health care facilities, such as hospitals and nursing homes, at the Appeals Court last week. In a published opinion – Montanez v. 178 Lowell Street Operating Company, LLC, 95 Mass. App. Ct. 699 (2019) – the Court established that when providers, such...Read More

            In June 2008, Brandon Woods nursing home, in Dartmouth MA, accepted an elderly patient (LL) with previous diagnosis of dementia, delusions, anxiety disorder, depression and paranoia. Brandon Woods, owned and operated by the Essex Group, who under Elder Services name operates various facilities throughout Massachusetts, chose to accept this patient, because she paid at...Read More