Congratulations to Advocate Capital, Inc. friend and client David J. Hoey on being named Attorney of Month in the Greater Boston Edition of Attorney at Law Magazine. David is a dean and instructor at the highly esteemed Keenan Ball Trial College with a highly successful law practice in Massachusetts.
Early in David’s career, he saw a need to represent the elderly in abuse and neglect cases. He attended a seminar on elder abuse returning with the self-proclaimed label of “nursing home neglect lawyer.”
Some of David’s recent successes include:
Calandro v. Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc.
Court: Middlesex County Superior Court - Verdict: $14, 447,905, including punitive damages. The plaintiff died of heart failure following acute renal failure due to being unattended for days at a time; she suffered from bedsores, splenic abscess, septic shock, untreated urinary tract infections, and fecal impaction related to neglect before she died. For more information on the case click here.
Johnson v. Kindred Healthcare, Inc., et al.
Court: MA Supreme Judicial Court – David argued on appeal that health care proxies are intended by statute to cover only “health care decisions” and that a power of attorney would be required to execute any binding arbitration contract. The MA Supreme Judicial Court remanding the case to Plymouth Superior Court for trial on the merits.
Due to his outstanding track record, attorneys across the U.S. ask David to co-counsel and to take on challenging cases like parking garage rape case (Wahlstrom v. JPA Management Company, Inc., et al. case Court: Suffolk County Superior Court - Verdict: $6,650,829.50, including accrued interest). For more information on this case click here.
When asked about his amazing success, David’s humble reply is:
“This is still a crazy business,” he says. “You advance all the costs, and if you lose, you can eat them. You wait years to get paid an unknown sum, and you frequently have to chase people to collect. It’s one of the hardest businesses in the world."
All of us here at Advocate Capital, Inc. are proud to call amazing trial lawyers like David Hoey both friend and client. Thanks for all the tireless work in the trenches of justice to insure access to the courthouse for all of us.
Senior Vice President
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