Greenberg Traurig’s David G. Thomas and Abigail Druhot were quoted in a Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly article on the Appeals Court ruling in Antokal v. Spring Valley Country Club. The trial judge in the matter decided that there were insufficient findings to hold that buyers of the country club violated Chapter 93A by breaking their promise to assume their predecessors’ liability for a Tips Act case pending against the club at the time of the acquisition.
Abigail Druhot described the ruling as another example of the courts establishing that every claim cannot be turned into a 93A claim. “It needs this extra egregiousness,” she explained. “Litigants need to focus on what facts they have that are exactly unfair or deceptive.”
David G. Thomas, acknowledged that, as a Rule 23.0 decision, the ruling was not binding. But “to the extent that it lines up with facts in another case, it certainly can offer persuasiveness and authority for the litigants’ legal positions,” he said.