The American Tort Reform Foundation gave Massachusetts a "Dishonorable Mention" in the Foundation's annual report on "judicial hellholes," citing the Supreme Judicial Court's opinion in Klairmont v. Gainsboro Restaurant, Inc., 465 Mass. 165 (2013). This was a wrongful death action by the parents of a college student who, after a night of drinking, was found unconscious at the foot of a staircase in a bar/ restaurant. He died two days later.
Plaintiffs' theory was that the student had walked from the main bar into a hallway leading to the rear door, seeking a quieter place to receive a call on his cell...
