CHRISTOPHER M. JANTZEN is a 1980 summa cum laude graduate of Boston College. He is a 1984 graduate of Boston College Law School and a native of Needham, Massachusetts. During the past year and a half Mr. Jantzen has tried and won 6 consecutive jury verdicts. He was named a “Super Lawyer” by Massachusetts Super Lawyer magazine in the November of 2009 and October of 2010 issues. Mr. Jantzen has 26 years of experience in the trial defense of personal and commercial automobile liability, products liability, premises liability, director and officer liability, 93A liability, insurance fraud (SIU), PIP liability and coverage matters. A few highlights of his successes in Court include the following: 1.) He was instrumental as defense counsel in breaking the “Pony Express” insurance fraud ring, and saved MetLife Auto and Home over $600,000.00 in bogus and inflated lost wage claims, which garnered him the 2000 New England Association of Insurance Fraud Investigators Investigation of the Year Award. 2.) He successfully represented the Directors of Goodwill of Merrimack Valley before the New Hampshire Supreme Court in March of 2007, resulting in the defeat of a $2.1 million “D&O” claim. 3.) He also appeared in a successful variance request before the Massachusetts State Board of Examiners for Plumbers and Gasfitters in March 2007, in a variance case of first impression before that board. 4.) Mr. Jantzen obtained a rare injunction against the MIAA in Middlesex Superior Court, in favor of a high school football player client. Mr. Jantzen maintains an active trial practice in the District, Superior and Federal Courts, in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, as pro hac vice counsel. He is a past and present member of the American Bar Association (Tort and Insurance Section ), the Massachusetts Bar Association, Middlesex County Bar Association and the Norfolk County Bar Association.
