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

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