Michael S. Appel - Lawyer in Boston, MA

101 Merrimac Street, Suite 900,
Boston, MA 02114

Practice Areas

Mass Tort Litigation and Class Actions - Plaintiffs Boston, MA Mass Tort Litigation Boston, MA Litigation Boston, MA Class Actions Boston, MA Class Actions - Plaintiffs Boston, MA Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs Boston, MA Personal Injury Overview Boston, MA Personal Injury Law Boston, MA Personal Injury Litigation Boston, MA Serious Personal Injury Law Boston, MA Military Personal Injury Law Boston, MA

About the lawyer

Michael S. Appel is an excellent lawyer from Boston, MA. Attorney Michael S. Appel works in an office located at 101 Merrimac Street, Suite 900, Boston, MA 02114. Boston lawyer Jared K. Miller will help you solve all issues in the following areas of law: Mass Tort Litigation and Class Actions - Plaintiffs, Mass Tort Litigation, Litigation, Class Actions, Class Actions - Plaintiffs, Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs, Personal Injury Overview, Personal Injury Law, Personal Injury Litigation, Serious Personal Injury Law, Military Personal Injury Law Boston, MA. Michael S. Appel is the best lawyer in Boston, Massachusetts state!

Michael has achieved excellent results for his clients in catastrophic personal injury matters. He is widely recognized as one of the nations top mass-tort lawyers, based on his work pursuing cases against the drug and medical-device industry. Michael has played a leading role in the following national litigation matters:

He has served as co-lead coordinating counsel for the plaintiffs in national litigation against Fresenius, the manufacturer of GranuFlo, a defective product used during dialysis.
He has served on the plaintiffs executive committee in litigation involving transvaginal surgical mesh implants.
He was plaintiffs lead coordinating counsel in Massachusetts diet-drug litigation, in which he helped to obtain settlements for over 2,300 individuals injured by the Fen-Phen and Redux diet drugs.
He was plaintiffs co-liaison counsel in litigation involving Taxus surgical stents, which were favorably settled.

Michael has had similar success handling matters involving medical malpractice, premises liability, workplace injury, and motor-vehicle accidents. He has successfully negotiated favorable resolutions of such cases, including a $4 million settlement on behalf of a child who sustained a traumatic brain injury in a bus accident, a $6 million settlement for law-enforcement officers in a nationwide class-action suit against the maker of material used in body armor, and a $4.5 million settlement on behalf of the parents of a college student who was murdered in her off-campus apartment.

Michael lectures frequently on issues of trial practice and mass torts at various legal-education and bar-association seminars.

Recognition:

American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA)
The Best Lawyers in America (Personal Injury Litigation and Mass Tort/Class Actions), 2012-2022
The Best Lawyers in America Lawyer of the Year, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Action-Plaintiffs, 2017
Massachusetts Super Lawyers (Personal Injury Plaintiff: Medical Malpractice), 2007-2021
Rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell
Benchmark Litigation Litigation Star (Plaintiff), Massachusetts, 2013-2021
Benchmark Appellate First Circuit Litigation Star, Massachusetts, 2013

Memberships:

Boston Bar Association (former Chair, Tort Committee)
American Association for Justice (formerly known as Association of Trial Lawyers of America)
Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys

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