City of Boston v. Aetna Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• standing requirement of section 11, if one exists, is that the plaintiff must be “ ‘person who engages in the conduct of any trade or commerce’ ”
• explaining that “[t]he word ‘assign’ or ‘assignment’ need not be used to make an effective assignment” and that “a ‘valid assignment may be made by any words or acts which fairly indicate an intention to make the assignee owner of a claim’” (citation omitted)
• “The failure of the City to allege the sending of a demand letter is fatal to its [chapter 93A] claim.”
• “The failure of the City to allege the sending of a demand letter is fatal to its § 9 claim.”
• “The costs of uncompensated care are distributed equitably among the acute care hospitals through a system that works somewhat like an assigned risk pool.”
• “The failure of the City to allege the sending of a demand letter is fatal to its § 9 claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).