Legal Opinion
HipSaver, Inc. v. Kiel
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 13, 2013PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpina, J.
The present action concerns a claim for commercial disparagement arising from the publication of an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).1 The plaintiff, HipSaver, Inc. (HipSaver), is a Massachusetts corporation engaged in the design, manufacture, and sale of hip protectors, a device that provides protective padding over the wearer’s hip bones in order to reduce the risk of hip fractures in the event of a fall. On July 25, 2007, JAMA published an article entitled “Efficacy of a Hip Protector to Prevent Hip Fracture in Nursing Home Residents: The HIP PRO Randomized…
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