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Appeals court reviews 93A and evidentiary rulings in LED lighting dispute
Summary
An appellate panel heard arguments in Wicked Light Supply Inc. v. Woodforest Lighting Inc. and MLS Company Limited over whether a trial judge properly found violations of G.L. c. 93A and admitted an investigative report into evidence.
An appellate panel heard oral argument in Wicked Light Supply Inc. v. Woodforest Lighting Inc. and MLS Company Limited, Docket No. 2024-0088, challenging a trial court's finding of a knowing and willful unfair or deceptive act under Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 93A and evidentiary rulings admitting a supplier report.
Appellants Woodforest Lighting and MLS, represented by Michael Fenzer, asked the court to reverse the 93A ruling and the related punitive damages and attorney-fee awards. Fenzer said the only documentary evidence suggesting product-wide defects was a March 2017 report (identified in the record as Exhibit 11) and that the record otherwise showed sporadic failures typical of LED fixtures. "The only evidence in the record of any putative cause of a lighting defect . . . was exhibit 11," Fenzer told the…
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