About Krysia Syska

Krysia J. Syska joined Lubin & Meyer in 1990 and has been a partner since 2001. She has been actively involved in numerous record-setting medical malpractice verdicts and settlements covered by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, The Boston Globe, and several national verdict reporting publications. Notable recent results include a $5.65 million birth injury settlement for failure to properly monitor a fetus during delivery and a $5 million settlement for birth injuries when a nurse and midwife failed to act on signs of fetal distress. She has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America each year since 2012 and holds an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell.

Listed as a Massachusetts Super Lawyer in medical malpractice since 2008, she was also named to the Top Women Attorneys and Top 50 Women lists published in Boston magazine. She regularly speaks at professional and continuing legal education seminars on personal injury law and medical malpractice advances. She is a graduate of Suffolk University Law School and is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Lubin & Meyer

These results are credited to Lubin & Meyer. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

A Middlesex County jury returned the largest personal-injury verdict in Massachusetts history after finding that an obstetrician waited more than five hours to perform an emergency C-section despite clear signs of fetal distress, causing a Dracut boy to develop cerebral palsy.

Middlesex County Superior Court, Lowell MA · 2005Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

A Norfolk Superior Court jury awarded Andrea Larkin $35.4 million after finding that Dedham Medical Associates failed to document a known brain abnormality, leaving her obstetrician unaware of a condition that made vaginal delivery dangerous.

Norfolk Superior Court, Dedham MA · 2015Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

An Essex Superior Court jury awarded $29 million to the two daughters of Joseph Brown, 43, after Salem Hospital emergency physicians failed to order a CT scan that would have revealed a fatal aortic aneurysm and dissection in time for lifesaving surgery.

Essex Superior Court, Newburyport MA · 2023Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

A Middlesex Superior Court jury awarded Steven Luppold $20 million after Lowell General Hospital emergency staff misdiagnosed a leg blood clot as sciatica on two separate visits, delaying treatment until amputation was unavoidable.

Middlesex Superior Court, Lowell MA · 2023Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$16.7 millionVerdict

A Suffolk Superior Court jury awarded $16.7 million after a Brigham and Women's Hospital radiologist read a 2006 chest X-ray as normal, missing a visible lung nodule that would develop into terminal cancer within 13 months.

Suffolk Superior Court, Boston MA · 2014Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Suffolk University Law School
J.D.

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Massachusetts
State Bar of New Hampshire

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.