Because he did not serve notice in a timely manner, a trustee waived his right to seek an independent appraisal of the value of family businesses controlled by the decedent’s surviving brothers, dooming a breach-of-contract claim, a Superior Court judge has decided. In Szawlowski Potato Farms, Inc., et al. v. Szawlowski, et al., Judge Kenneth
Lawyer for firm The Appeals Court has ruled that a couple’s legal malpractice claim alleging negligent settlement advice in a medical malpractice case should have been disposed of on summary judgment for lack of competent evidence that different representation would have secured a better result. The defendant law firm, Boston’s Lubin & Meyer, represented plaintiffs