Fallon Clinic, Inc. v. Hubbard Health Systems, Inc.

Kinder, C. Jeffrey, J.

INTRODUCTION

Plaintiff Fallon Clinic, Inc. (“Fallon”) is a large multi-specialty medical group practice located throughout central Massachusetts. Defendant Hubbard Health Systems, Inc. (“Hubbard”) operates Hubbard Regional Hospital, a 23-bed acute care adult hospital in Webster, Massachusetts. On November 2, 1994, Fallon leased a parcel of Hubbard’s property in Webster pursuant to the terms of a “Ground Lease.” The Ground Lease contains a rent escalation clause which is the source of this dispute. Hubbard claims that pursuant to the rent escalation clause, as of November…