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About Marc Breakstone
Marc L. Breakstone is a founder and principal of Breakstone, White & Gluck. He has represented seriously injured clients in medical malpractice and personal injury cases since 1986. In the courtroom, he is known for using computer reenactments and interactive digital technology to present cases to juries, which has helped win significant recoveries in medical malpractice, motor vehicle accident, and bus accident cases. Mr. Breakstone has consistently maintained an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell (the highest rating for legal ability and professional standards) and holds a top rating on Avvo.
He has been recognized by Top 100 New England Super Lawyers and Top 100 Massachusetts Super Lawyers. Mr. Breakstone lectures approximately 8 to 10 times per year to lawyers throughout New England on trial techniques and medical malpractice law, and has spoken at Northeastern University School of Law, Boston University Law School, and Suffolk University Law School. He has been a member of the Board of Governors of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys for over 15 years. A high-profile case he handled involved a spinal fusion patient who was victimized in 2002 when surgeon Dr. David Arndt left during surgery to visit a bank; his recovery for a brain-damaged infant against a national ambulance company led to regulatory changes in ambulance incident reporting in Massachusetts.
Proven verdicts and settlements
A Middlesex Superior Court jury awarded $56 million on July 22, 2026 to Malcolm Carnwath, a 78-year-old retired realtor from Newburyport, Massachusetts. An Amazon delivery driver fell asleep and crossed the center line in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Nov. 16, 2024, causing a head-on crash. Mr. Carnwath suffered a cardiac arrest, multiple strokes with permanent brain injury, and a below-knee amputation of his left leg. Amazon accepted liability days before the two-day damages trial.
Marc Breakstone secured a $7.5 million wrongful death settlement for the family of William 'Billy' Nichols, a 46-year-old electrician killed in a July 2010 propane explosion at a Norfolk condominium construction site, after proving that a propane distributor's deliberate under-filling of a new tank caused the safety odorant to dissipate, leaving a deadly gas leak completely undetectable.
A Middlesex Superior Court jury found American Medical Response of Massachusetts negligent in May 2015 after EMTs let a stretcher tip over at a Plymouth dialysis pickup in January 2009. Barbara Grimes, 67, struck her head, suffered a brain hemorrhage and died days later. The jury awarded $1,425,000 for her conscious pain and suffering and $75,000 in wrongful death damages to her three next of kin.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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