"There's a real concern about institutional stability. If a firm you've invested in suddenly can't represent you because of outside pressure, that's a major problem for companies.”

Given Chapter 93A's broad statutory language, which invariably invites creative pleading and captures conduct that would otherwise fit imprecisely within common-law fraud, contract, or tort doctrines, Chapter 93A has become the most widely used statute in all of Massachusetts civil litigation.

"Dr. Bean's reliability is shot, and the proof is overwhelming," attorneys for Louisiana said of clinical psychologist Anthony Bean. Bean did not respond to Law.com's requests for comment.