About Nicholas Cappiello

Nicholas D. Cappiello is a partner at Lubin & Meyer dedicating his practice to medical malpractice and general liability litigation. He has secured several multi-million dollar settlements for injured clients in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and has contributed to record-setting jury awards including: $13.5 million for the family of a 40-year-old woman who died from an infection during cancer treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, $10.7 million for a man who required multiple surgeries from a perforated intestine.

$8.5 million for the family of a New Hampshire man killed by a tractor trailer, $2.5 million for the family of a woman who died after an unnecessary high-risk surgery, and $1.75 million for a man left completely blind after improper emergency room care. Recognized in Massachusetts Super Lawyers annually since 2013 and named to Boston magazine's Top Lawyers list each year from 2022 through 2025. He is admitted in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, as well as the U.S. District Courts for both states. He is a graduate of Suffolk University Law School and Tulane University.

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.
Tulane University
Undergraduate

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.