Stacey Pietrowicz

Bar / Professional Activity

• U.S. District Court-District of Massachusetts, 2011
• Massachusetts Bar Association Civil Litigation Section Council
• U.S. Court of Appeals (First Circuit), 2018
• Massachusetts, 2008
• American Association for Justice
• Boston Bar Association
• Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys
• Women's Bar Association

Verdicts / Settlements (Case Results)

• Recovery in medical malpractice case for adult children of a 64-year-old man who was discharged prematurely from the hospital after suffering a cardiac event. The physician placed the patient on a portable heart monitor, which the physician believed would detect any abnormalities, rather than keeping the patient in the hospital. Hours after the discharge, the heart monitor showed a treatable but life-threatening arrhythmia that the heart monitoring company did not address, leaving the man to die in his home. The case was litigated vigorously for six years including a discovery complaint and over a dozen depositions, settling only a couple of months prior to trial., 2025
• Settlement in medical malpractice case for a 72-year-old woman whose routine bloodwork showed significant abnormalities in kidney function that were not relayed to her for over a year, leading to permanent kidney damage. The defendant physicians disputed who had access to or received the test results, as they were ordered by one provider and later performed at the plaintiff’s primary care physician’s office. The defense argued that earlier intervention would not have mattered, but the plaintiff’s expert, a local nephrologist, disclosed strong opinions to the contrary. Settlement was achieved for the patient after several years of litigation., 2024
• Settlement of wrongful death claims for the estate of a 39 year-old live-in caretaker who died from carbon monoxide poisoning in the home of her employer, a 90 year-old woman, who also passed away at the employer’s Massachusetts home. SUGARMAN attorneys filed suit against the owner of the property, a trust that named the elderly woman’s son as trustee, for failure to have working carbon monoxide detectors. After obtaining a preliminary injunction requiring the trust to place all proceeds of the sale of the home into escrow, the plaintiff settled with the trust before pursuing claims against an HVAC company who negligently serviced and maintained the home’s furnace, which had improper ventilation. The estate settled with the HVAC defendant shortly after the claims were filed. The caretaker, a Jamaican immigrant, left behind three adult children., 2024
• Wrongful death claim recovery for the two children of a 48-year-old man who died from a pulmonary embolism at a Central Massachusetts hospital when a radiologist misread an ultrasound ordered to determine whether the patient had blood clots in his leg. When the ultrasound was read as negative, the patient was discharged from the hospital, only to collapse in the parking lot and tragically die soon after.  Following extensive discovery over several years, the plaintiff’s estate resolved the case against the defendant radiologist., 2024

Pro bono / Community Service

• Women's Bar Association - Women's Bar Foundation's Elder Law Project, 2019
• University of Rhode Island College of Arts and Sciences Advisory Council, 2025

Educational Background

• University of Rhode Island, B.A., Magna Cum Laude, 1998-2002
• Boston University School of Law, Concentration in Litigation and Dispute Resolution, 2005-2008

Scholarly Lectures / Writings

• Outlines laws in Massachusetts and other jurisdictions regarding child trespassers. , Child Trespassers, MCLE Massachusetts Tort Law Manual, Legal, 2024

Honors

• Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, University of Rhode Island, 2002, Phi Beta Kappa, University of Rhode Island, 2002
• Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly honors the outstanding achievements made by women lawyers., "Top Women of Law", Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, 2019

“A tireless, relentless worker with brilliant insight into cases and litigation process”

“I had the pleasure of working with Stacy on a triple wrongful death case this year. She is meticulous in everything she does. Her communication skills and legal writing is excellent. She is a great lawyer who has solid judgment and is wise beyond her years.”