Shapiro v. Public Service Mutual Insurance

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• plaintiff who did not establish causal connection between 93A unfair act and loss of money or property not entitled to 93A damages but entitled to attorney's fees pursuant to act
• insured not entitled to damages on Consumer Protection Act claim was nonetheless entitled to attorney fees because he established that the insurer committed an unfair act
• plaintiff who did not establish causal connection between 93A unfair act and loss of money or property not entitled to 93A damages but entitled to attorney’s fees pursuant to act
• where State and local officials found oil entering a brook culvert and traced it to the plaintiffs underground oil tank, there was an occurrence as defined in the policy
• all that need be shown to support an award of counsel fees is that the defendant committed an unfair or deceptive act, irrespective of whether that act caused a loss of money or property
• ‘To prevail on his claim under c. 93A, §11, [the plaintiff] had to show a causal connection between [the insurer’s] failure to settle and the loss of money or property and that such loss was foreseeable as a result of the failure to settle.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).