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HLATKY v. STEWARD HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, LLC

SJC-12688.

484 Mass. 566 (2020)

LYNN HLATKY, v. STEWARD HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, LLC.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 28, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin P. Martin ( Brian T. Burgess , of the District of Columbia, also present) for the defendant.

Joseph L. Bierwirth ( M. Patrick Moore, Jr. , also present) for the plaintiff.

Ben Robbins & Martin J. Newhouse , for New England Law Foundation, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, & CYPHER, JJ.

BY THE COURT. After a trial that was bifurcated on the issues of liability and damages, a jury in the Superior Court found that the defendant, Steward Health Care System, LLC (Steward), committed a breach of the express terms of its contract with the plaintiff, Lynn Hlatky, as well as the contract's implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, when Steward withdrew its support for Hlatky's cancer research laboratory...

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