Sugarman & Sugarman
About the firm
Sugarman and Sugarman, P.C. is a Boston personal injury law firm tracing its roots to 1920 that concentrates exclusively on representing injured persons and the families of those killed through the wrongful conduct of others. The firm has secured some of the largest personal injury verdicts and settlements in Massachusetts, including the state's largest personal injury verdict or settlement in multiple years.
Notable results
A Suffolk County jury awarded $30.55 million to the family of a boy left with catastrophic brain damage after a traveling nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital abandoned continuous fetal heart-rate monitoring during a prolonged second stage of labor.
A Suffolk County jury awarded $28 million, including $25 million in punitive damages, after Father's Huddle Cafe in Boston served alcohol to underage patrons who attacked Thomas Christopher, 23, chasing him into traffic where he was struck and killed; the Massachusetts Appeals Court affirmed the verdict against the bar on January 28, 2003.
A Salem jury awarded $20.6 million, including $18 million in punitive damages, after a defective Banzai inflatable pool slide sold by Toys R Us collapsed and killed a 29-year-old woman in Andover, Massachusetts; the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld the full verdict in 2013.
Sugarman and Sugarman secured a confidential settlement for the family of a four-year-old Dudley boy who died after falling 18 feet through an oversized gap between a Sears escalator and its railing, a gap that exceeded state safety code and lacked a required barricade.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
