About Madeline Fazekas

Madeline ("Maddie") L. Fazekas is a dedicated advocate for those who have been injured. Her experience across multiple practice areas outside the firm's core personal injury focus allows her to bring comprehensive thinking to client matters. Before joining SUGARMAN as an associate in 2023, she worked at a small personal injury firm in Salem, Massachusetts, gaining hands-on experience with client cases from intake through resolution. Maddie graduated from Suffolk University Law School in 2023, where she received the Jurisprudence Award in Torts and the Legal Practice Skills Distinguished Oral Argument Award, was a Trustee Academic Scholarship recipient, and served on the executive board of the Suffolk Journal of Health and Biomedical Law. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English and Political Science from Providence College in 2019.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Sugarman & Sugarman

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

$30.55 millionVerdictTop 20 in Massachusetts · #11

A Suffolk County jury awarded $30.55 million to the family of a boy left with catastrophic brain damage after a traveling nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital abandoned continuous fetal heart-rate monitoring during a prolonged second stage of labor.

Suffolk County Superior Court, Boston, MA · 2019Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

A Suffolk County jury awarded $28 million, including $25 million in punitive damages, after Father's Huddle Cafe in Boston served alcohol to underage patrons who attacked Thomas Christopher, 23, chasing him into traffic where he was struck and killed; the Massachusetts Appeals Court affirmed the verdict against the bar on January 28, 2003.

Suffolk County Superior Court / Massachusetts Appeals Court (affirmed 2003) · 2003Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

A Salem jury awarded $20.6 million, including $18 million in punitive damages, after a defective Banzai inflatable pool slide sold by Toys R Us collapsed and killed a 29-year-old woman in Andover, Massachusetts; the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld the full verdict in 2013.

Essex Superior Court, Salem, MA (affirmed Mass. SJC 2013) · 2011Product LiabilityRead the full story →
Settlement

Sugarman and Sugarman secured a confidential settlement for the family of a four-year-old Dudley boy who died after falling 18 feet through an oversized gap between a Sears escalator and its railing, a gap that exceeded state safety code and lacked a required barricade.

Worcester Superior Court, MA · 2014Wrongful DeathRead 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., 2023
Providence College
Undergraduate, 2019

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Massachusetts, admitted 2023

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