'Leaders in the Law' Recognizes Attorneys Adam Satin and Lynn Hu for Medical Malpractice Verdict
Lubin & Meyer honored for recording one of the previous year's top verdicts at annual Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly event
May 18, 2026 - Leaders in the Law, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
Attorneys Adam Satin and Lynn Hu received recognition from Henriette Campagne, editor of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, at the Leaders in the Law event on May 18, 2026, for recording one of the largest verdicts of 2025.
Lubin & Meyer attorneys Adam R. Satin and Lynn I. Hu, were honored for securing one of the largest verdicts of 2025 at the Leaders in the Law 2026 event held May 18, 2026 in Boston, MA. The event celebrates lawyers of the year, in-house leaders and the top verdicts and settlements of the year prior.
Below is the description of Satin and Hu's achievement as published in the Leaders in the Law special publication by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, May 18, 2026.
$10 Million Verdict
Horn v. Froio
Adam R. Satin and Lynn I. Hu, Lubin & Meyer, Boston
A top verdict of 2025
The family of a patient who passed away after her small bowel was perforated during an elective hernia repair received a $10 million verdict in January 2025 in a medical malpractice action, thanks to the work of Adam R. Satin and Lynn Hu of Lubin & Meyer in Boston.
The plaintiff's decedent was a 57-year-old woman who developed a symptomatic incisional hernia due to prior abdominal surgeries she had undergone. She was evaluated by the defendant surgeon, who decided that elective repair was indicated. Surgery was planned to be laparoscopic.
At the outset of the procedure, the surgeon failed in his attempt to place the Veress needle using a "blind" approach He thereafter obtained access to the abdominal cavity and began dissecting adhesions between the small bowel and the abdominal wall. Due to the dense adhesions, the surgeon became concerned about potentially perforating the small bowel and converted to open surgery.
The surgeon dictated that he completed the repair surgery without incident and that he had inspected the small bowel and found no evidence of injury. The patient was discharged home the same day.
On post-operative day two, the patient called the surgeon to report increasing abdominal pain, back and shoulder pain, nausea and an inability to eat. The surgeon's medical assistant, who was not a health care provider, returned the call and reported that it was normal to have postoperative pain.
The medical assistant emailed the surgeon about the decedent's call later in the day, but the surgeon did not call the patient back to obtain an adequate medical history.
Hours later, the decedent developed difficulty breathing and went to the ER, where she was promptly found to be in septic shock. Exploratory surgery found a perforation of the small bowel. Despite efforts to save her, the patient died.
The family testified that the surgeon admitted fault after the small bowel perforation was found. However, the surgeon denied responsibility in the litigation, claiming that a small bowel injury was simply a known complication of surgery even when performed correctly.
Satin emphasized the importance of framing a question for the jury that aligns with a basic truth they already know.
In the Horn case, it was "Should a patient die just days after a simple, elective hernia repair surgery?" "No juror thinks someone should die from a hernia repair," Satin said. "So when they think of it like that, the defendant's attempt to complicate the issues can always be brought back to earth by saying, 'Look at what they're trying to sell you when this poor woman went in for a simple hernia repair and lost her life!' Framing the question in a way that the only reasonable answer leads to a plaintiff's verdict is how you win these cases.
At the end of trial held in Plymouth Superior Court overseen by Judge Claudine A. Cloutier, jurors awarded $10 million ($17,084,931 with interest).
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