New England's Best Lawyers® Highlights Lubin & Meyer's Cases That Impact Patient and Public Safety

Cover story: The Perennial Powerhouse in Personal Injury Law

New England's Best Lawyers® / April 2026

BOSTON, MA — New England’s Best Lawyers® 2026, the annual peer review guide to the the region's top lawyers published as a supplement to the Boston Globe, is out with Lubin & Meyer attorneys featured as the cover story for the fifth consecutive year.

Six Lubin & Meyer attorneys are listed by Best Lawyers® and published in The Best Lawyers in America for 2026:

This year's article “Lubin & Meyer PC: The Perennial Powerhouse in Personal Injury Law” is reproduced in full below.

Best Lawyers New England is an annual listing of the top legal talent in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, as determined by Best Lawyers' methodology "designed to capture, as accurately as possible, the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of their colleagues within the same geographical area and legal practice area."

New England's Best Lawyers 2026

Lubin & Meyer trial lawyers appear on cover of New England's Best Lawyers 2026. The firm represents injured persons and their families in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island.

Lubin & Meyer: The Perennial Powerhouse in Personal Injury Law

Lubin & Meyer’s record-setting verdicts and settlements are not only securing justice for families, they are also reshaping patient and public safety across New England and beyond.

By Justin Smulison
Best Lawyers New England 2026

The year 2025 marked another defining chapter in the history of Lubin & Meyer. Led by its founder, Attorney Andrew C. Meyer, Jr., the firm secured a record 39 verdicts and settlements of $1 million or more — nine times the number of results of any other firm. This year marked Lubin & Meyer’s 18th consecutive year at the top of the charts according to reports submitted to Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.

For more than five decades, Lubin & Meyer has built its reputation on meticulous preparation, courtroom strength and an unwavering focus on the people it represents. Headquartered in Boston and serving clients throughout Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, the firm brings together 17 attorneys, five in-house medical professionals and an experienced support team. This depth of legal and medical knowledge has enabled the firm to recover hundreds of millions of dollars for individuals and families affected by medical malpractice, catastrophic personal injury and defective products.

Yet the firm’s impact extends well beyond financial recovery. Many of its cases have prompted policy reforms, training initiatives and safety protocols that protect patients and consumers, ensuring that hard-fought for lessons lead to better care for others. “Our work is about helping families move forward after suffering preventable harm by another’s negligence—and using what we uncover to make sure the same harm doesn’t happen to someone else,” said Meyer.

Firm’s Advocacy in Doctor Abuse Case Leads to Chaperone Safeguards and Legislative Action

Lubin & Meyer is currently in its third year of civil litigation against Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Charles River Medical Associates doctor Derrick Todd, M.D., representing more than 200 patients who allege they were subjected to inappropriate and abusive medical examinations. The case has drawn national attention and, more importantly, has already produced meaningful institutional change.

In January 2025, a Middlesex County grand jury criminally indicted Dr. Todd on two counts of rape. As civil litigation progressed and survivors came forward, Mass General Brigham implemented a standardized clinical chaperone policy across its system for sensitive examinations. Under the policy, patients are automatically offered a trained clinical chaperone and may request one of a specific gender whenever possible.

“This change began with patients who were willing to speak out,” Meyer said. “Their courage, and the trust they placed in us, allowed us to pursue accountability through the courts and helped secure safeguards that will better protect patients across the healthcare system for years to come.”

The concept has since gained legislative traction. Proposed Massachusetts legislation would require similar chaperone protections statewide, and federal legislation introduced in Congress would establish comparable standards for Medicare-participating providers nationwide, demonstrating how civil litigation can help shape broader patient-safety reform.

Case Involving Death of Infant Inspires Annual Lecture

In another significant matter resolved in 2025, the firm represented the family of a five-month-old infant, who died following complications from excessive blood loss during a complex jaw separation surgery. Evidence showed that the surgical team was not adequately prepared for a transfusion and failed to monitor blood loss until the child’s condition had become critical.

After a seven-day trial, the jury returned a verdict in favor of the infant’s family. Before judgment entered, Lubin & Meyer attorney Andrew Miller resolved the case for a seven-figure settlement and an agreement that the hospital would establish an annual lecture in Patient Blood Management, an ongoing educational program designed to improve surgical preparedness and reduce transfusion-related risks.

“For many families, the most meaningful outcome of pursuing a claim is knowing that what happened to their loved one will lead to safer care for others,” Meyer said. “This is often the family’s priority, and we are honored to help carry that forward.”

Key Results Creating Lasting Safety Reforms

Lubin & Meyer’s work continues to highlight patterns of risk within healthcare systems and prompt improvements that extend far beyond individual cases. Recent matters include:

  • Improved sleep-lab protocols: In this $15 million settlement, led by partner Robert M. Higgins, the firm represented the family of a 6-month-old child who suffered a fatal brain injury during a sleep study at Boston Children’s Hospital. Higgins’ investigation and advocacy drew international attention to the case and prompted changes and retraining in sleep-lab safety protocols aimed at protecting vulnerable pediatric patients.
  • Negligent surgeon resigns: Higgins’ $13 million negligence verdict involving a fatal tonsillectomy exposed serious surgical and postoperative failures. The litigation resulted in strengthened institutional oversight and the resignation of the surgeon.
  • Awareness of “alarm fatigue” impacts device regulation: Attorney Meyer represented the family of a man who died after hospital staff failed to respond to cardiac monitor alarms. Through litigation, Meyer helped bring widespread attention to the risks of “alarm fatigue,” prompting renewed scrutiny of monitoring systems and device regulation and advancing efforts to improve patient monitoring safety nationwide.
  • “Double-booking” surgery cases lead to changes by Board of Medicine: In separate cases, Partners Robert M. Higgins and William J. Thompson represented patients affected by the practice of double-booking, or overlapping, surgeries. Their work helped bring the issue into public focus through reporting by The Boston Globe Spotlight Team and contributed to strengthened oversight and policy changes by the Massachusetts Board of Medicine.

Each of these matters reflects the firm’s overarching goal: securing accountability for injured victims and their families while encouraging safe practices that reduce preventable harm.

Professional Recognition and Community Trust

Lubin & Meyer’s results and advocacy continue to earn recognition from peers and industry organizations. In 2026, Andrew C. Meyer, Jr. was named for the fourth consecutive year to Boston magazine’s “Most Influential Bostonians” list, reflecting his longstanding leadership in advancing patient and consumer safety throughout Massachusetts and beyond. The annual list recognizes leaders, pioneers and guiding voices who are shaping Boston’s future and whose work has a direct and lasting impact on the well-being of the public.

This recognition follows Meyer’s recent inclusion in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly’s Inaugural Hall of Fame class, recognizing his decades of courtroom success on behalf of injured patients and families and his role in driving reforms that strengthen safeguards, elevate standards of care and promote greater protection for consumers.

The firm continues to earn Best Law Firms® Tier 1 rankings in the 2026 edition for Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs and Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs in Boston. Its attorneys are regularly recognized by leading peer-review organizations and publications, including The Best Lawyers in America©, Massachusetts Super Lawyers, Boston magazine's Top Lawyers, and Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.

Six Lubin & Meyer attorneys were selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© 2026, with Partner Robert M. Higgins named the 2025 “Lawyer of the Year” in Boston for Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs, an honor awarded to only one attorney in each practice area and region. 

“We certainly value and appreciate the respect of our peers, but what matters most is the trust our clients place in us,” Meyer said. “Every case represents a family seeking answers, accountability and a healing path forward.”

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Lubin & Meyer's History of Recognition by Best Lawyers

Lubin & Meyer has been featured on the cover of New England's Best Lawyers nine times in the last 14 years.

Lubin & Meyer on the covers of New England's Best Lawyers magazine.

The 2025 issue of New England's Best Lawyers focused on the firm's extraordinary record of results in the feature article: Defining the Gold Standard in Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury Law, which points out that last year alone, the firm secured 36 verdicts and settlements of $1 million or more — 18 times that of any other personal injury law firm in the region. A referring attorney described the firm, this way: "No other law firm is better positioned to handle complex, high-stakes medical malpractice and personal injury cases. Their talent, expertise and integrity — paired with a record of success — set them apart."

In 2024, the New England's Best Lawyers article, Protecting Patients and the Public, highlighted Lubin & Meyer's most successful year yet securing more than nine times as many “million-plus” verdicts and settlements than the next closest firm, while embarking on an “historic legal action representing close to 200 patients in the highly publicized claims against a Boston rheumatologist accused of sexual abuse.”  

Meyer describes the serious nature of this case:

“When numerous plaintiffs come forward, it is unlikely that supervisors and leadership were unaware of this doctor's unethical and illegal behavior,” he said. “We plan to expose a pattern of systemic recklessness and negligence. We aim to hold all wrongdoers accountable, secure maximum compensation for the victims and demand the necessary reforms to prevent such unthinkable acts from recurring in our health care systems.”

In 2023, the publication called Lubin & Meyer the “Perennial Powerhouse” as “Boston's Top Legal Team in the Fight to Prevent Medical Errors.” The article notes the increasing difficulty in bringing medical cases. Says Meyer:

“Claims are becoming more complex. We spend more time today than at any other period in our firm’s history investigating the claims because medical providers have become more sophisticated in how their work is documented, and as a result of the providers not wanting to acknowledge that an error was made in the care delivered.”

Failures or delays in informing or diagnosing medical conditions were the root cause of action for the majority of Lubin & Meyer’s cases that were resolved in the prior year. Sadly, Meyer notes that several of those errors led to preventable deaths.

In 2022, Best Lawyers New England recognized the firm for its unmatched results describing Lubin & Meyer as the "hardest-working, most successful medical malpractice and personal injury law firm in New England." The feature article, Success and Leadership by All Measures, notes that:

the firm "is known for accepting challenging and high-profile cases — such as those related to “patient dumping,” concurrent (double-booking) surgeries and computer-dosing errors—all taking place at major Boston hospitals. The firm’s work has often led to substantial and landmark results that have set precedents in consumer and injury law.""

In 2020, Best Lawyers New England highlighted Attorney Meyer's outspoken call for reform of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, due to examples of self-regulation protecting doctors more than patients.   

The articles states:

“As New England’s most recognizable medical malpractice attorney, he has built a firm around his mission of representing the voiceless—people seriously injured by the shortcomings and mistakes of a complex, often secretive medical system. ‘Our work shines a light on dangerous practices, a medical system unable to regulate itself and mistakes that by definition are avoidable,’ says Meyer.”

In 2016, the firm's partners graced the issue titled, "Two Decades of Best Lawyers," highlighting Lubin & Meyer's leadership on patient safety issues, which has earned the firm recgonition nationwide. One example given: Lubin & Meyer lawsuits at the center of the controversy over the practice of a single surgeon double-booking (overlapping) surgeries — used by surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital and others — which was covered in an exposé by the Boston Globe's Spotlight Team, exposing the practice and leading to changes required by the Massachusetts Board of Medicine.

Meyer is quoted,

“Patients deserve a health care system where safety is a priority and errors are not just swept under the rug. By exposing the lack of quality treatment in these institutions, we have done our part to help create a safer environment for patients everywhere.”

In 2015, Robert Higgins who was selected as Boston's Medical Malpractice Lawyer of the Year appeared on the cover with the companion article, "Safeguarding A Patient's Right to Secure and Reliable Medicine." In that issue, Higgins is quoted,

“The fact is, medical mistakes are endemic to our health care system, they are one of the leading causes of death in this country, and as a firm, it is not only our mission to achieve maximum compensation for our clients, but also to ensure patient safety for the general public. Improving any system requires change, which in turn requires leadership, and that is where we excel.”

In 2013, Andrew Meyer was featured with an accompanying cover story, "The Powerhouse Medical Malpractice Law Firm on Rebuilding Lives and Improving Medicine." That article states,

The systemic improvements the firm has forced over the years have been significant. In just one example, after a Lubin & Meyer suit uncovered a flaw in a major Boston hospital’s computer system that allowed medical professionals to overdose a patient resulting in her death, the hospital changed its protocols and put a backup system in place to safeguard against a similar tragedy.

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