Shaw v. Rodman Ford Truck Center, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• describing a “willful or knowing” violation as one where either the defendant affirmatively knew that a material representation was false or made the representation with reckless disregard of its truth or falsity
• judge need not make an express finding of “wilful” or “knowing” violation of G.L.c. 93A, §2 “as long as the evidence warrants a finding of either”
• employer liable for conduct of salesman and sales manager
• a “knowing” violation requires proof that defendant knew that a fact it represented to be true is not true, whereas a “willful” violation requires proof that defendant acted with reckless disregard in representing a fact that it did not know to be true or false

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).