Orm v. Secretary of Health and Human Services

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “[ujnder the lodestar method, [these] other, formerly separate considerations, see, e.g., Linthicum v. Archambault, 379 Mass. at 388-389, come into play indirectly”
• attorneys fees as damages possible where prevailing party’s legal expenses were direct result of unfair and deceptive conduct
• “Under the lodestar method, other, formerly separate considerations . . . come into play indirectly” (citing Linthicum)
• “Regardless of the arrangements Carole had with her attorney, as the prevailing party in a c. 93A case, she was entitled to recover a reasonable attorney’s fee for the work done to vindicate her rights under the statute.”
• “Ifac. 93A violation forces someone to incur legal fees and expenses that are not simply those incurred in vindicating that person’s rights under the statute, those fees may be treated as actual damages in the same way as other losses of money or property”
• “If a c. 93A violation forces someone to incur legal fees and expenses that are not simply those incurred in vindicating that person’s rights under the statute, those fees may be treated as actual damages in the same way as other losses of money or property.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).