Opinion ID: 200100
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Heading Rank: 2

Heading: 93A Claims

Text: Chapter 93A provides a cause of action to 92 [a]ny person who engages in the conduct of any trade or commerce and who suffers any loss of money or property, real or personal, as a result of the use or employment by another person who engages in any trade or commerce of ... an unfair or deceptive act or practice.... 93 Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 93A, § 11; see also id., § 2 (establishing that unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the conduct of any trade or commerce are unlawful). Dr. Singh argues that Blue Cross violated Mass. Gen. L. ch. 93A by 1) failing to meet the HCQIA standards, 2) violating the Audit Agreement, and 3) violating the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing. 94 We have already determined that no reasonable jury could determine that Blue Cross failed to meet the HCQIA standards. We have also addressed above, as contractual claims, Dr. Singh's arguments that Blue Cross violated the Audit Agreement. Assuming arguendo that Blue Cross's actions may technically have violated a contract that Dr. Singh had already flouted, they by no means reach `a level of rascality that would raise an eyebrow of someone inured to the rough and tumble of the world of commerce.' Quaker State Oil Ref. Corp. v. Garrity Oil Co., Inc., 884 F.2d 1510, 1513 (1st Cir.1989) (quoting Levings v. Forbes & Wallace, Inc., 8 Mass.App.Ct. 498, 396 N.E.2d 149, 153 (Mass.1979)). Chapter 93A only proscribes that level of improbity, and we endorse the district court's holding that Singh has shown no conduct by Blue Cross that a reasonable factfinder could find meets this demanding standard. Singh, 182 F.Supp.2d at 180.