· 9/4/2015
Peabody Essex Museum, Inc. v. United States Fire Insurance
Citations
- 802 F.3d 39
- 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 15858
How courts have described this case
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- setting out at length the applicable section 11 standard in business context as including unfair settlement practices defined in chapter 176D, section three
- “[A] violation of Chapter 176D constitutes only probative evidence, not per se proof, of egregious business misconduct for a Chapter 93A, § 11 business-to-business claim.”
- first citing Baker, 771 F.3d at 49–51; then citing Zabin v. Picciotto, 896 N.E.2d 937, 963 (Mass. App. Ct. 2008)
- “To be actionable, the challenged misconduct must rise to the level of an ‘extreme or egregious’ business wrong, ‘commercial extortion,’ or similar level of ‘rascality’ that ‘raises an eyebrow of someone inured to the rough and tumble world of commerce.’”
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Judges: Howard, Selya, Stahl
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