Across years of litigation and public commentary, Hoey’s cases have repeatedly drawn press coverage for their legal complexity, community impact, and implications for institutional responsibility.
Throughout his distinguished legal career, David Hoey has been widely featured in prominent regional and national media for his work in high-profile wrongful death and accountability cases, particularly involving nursing homes, assisted living facilities, public safety officials, and corporate negligence.
The Boston Globe, The Standard-Times, Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Berkshire Eagle, ABC 6 Providence, Boston.com, and WCVB have all highlighted his representation of families in complex and often tragic matters, including lawsuits involving assisted living oversight failures, nursing home deaths, commuter rail crashes, firearm sales litigation, and cases surrounding the fatal shooting of a New Bedford fire chief.
Investigative pieces like the Boston Globe’s reporting on arbitration agreements shielding assisted living homes and Contrarian Boston’s examination of oversight breakdowns have underscored the broader policy implications of cases connected to his advocacy — major nursing home verdicts, federal fines against long-term care facilities, and numerous wrongful death settlements — reflects the sustained media attention surrounding his efforts to pursue accountability in elder care and public safety matters.
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Below you can find a collection of some of Hoey’s many media appearances.
- Family sues Milford assisted living home after dementia patient’s assault caught on camera WCVB, February 2026
- Wrongful death of Springside Rehabilitation patient, Berkshire Eagle, September 2025
- Arbitration agreements shield assisted living homes from accountability, Boston Globe 2025
- Investigation exposes big gaps in assisted living oversight in Massachusetts amid deadly breakdowns in care, other issues, Contrarian Boston, July 2025
- ‘The perfect explosion,’ attorneys blame mayor, bar for death of former New Bedford fire chief, ABC 6 Providence, RI, May 2025
- Lawsuit: New Bedford fire chief’s widow claims Fairhaven bar overserved before shooting, The Standard-Times, May 2025
- Lawsuit: Woman died after fall was unnoticed for hours at Shrewsbury assisted living home, Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Jan. 2025
- $1M lawsuit: ‘Humiliation’ over firing led to New Bedford fire chief’s breakdown, shooting, The Standard-Times, Dec. 2024
- Hoey Steps Down from Dean Position, November 2024
- Widow of deputy fire chief killed in police shootout weighs lawsuit against New Bedford, The New Bedford Light, Sept. 2024
- Mayor Mitchell threatened with lawsuit related to New Bedford fire chief’s fatal shooting, The Standard-Times, Aug. 2024
- Family of Wilmington woman killed in 2022 commuter rail crash files wrongful death lawsuit, The Boston Globe, Sept. 2023
- Family Of Woman Killed By Commuter Rail Sues MBTA For Crash Records, DigBoston, May 2023
- Massachusetts family suing Cabela’s over ammunition sale in son’s death, WCVB, April 2023
- Lawsuit filed against Cabela’s in Worcester gun death, Telegram & Gazette, April 2023
- New Bedford man wins lawsuit against Alden Court nursing home for mother’s death, The Standard-Times, Nov. 2022
- Acting Mass. fire chief fired for dishonesty; new lawsuit filed, Fire Rescue 1, Jan. 2022
- Westboro nursing home to pay $1M in wrongful death lawsuit, Telegram & Gazette, Jan. 2019
- Watch, but don’t listen: ‘Granny cams’ can still be illegal, Boston Fox 25 News, Oct. 2019
- Brutal murder at Randolph nursing home highlights growing risk from younger residents, Boston.com, Oct. 2017
- Nursing home sued over fatal Christmas accident, Boston Globe, Jan 2017
- A nursing home giant stumbles amid expansion, The Boston Globe, Dec. 2016
- Wilmington nursing home fined after resident’s death, The Boston Globe, March 2016
- Federal regulators impose steep fine on troubled Wilmington nursing home, The Boston Globe, April 2016
- Attorney at Law Magazine Boston Launches, April 2016
- Kindred faces $2 million verdict in nursing home assault case with no eyewitnesses, McKnight’s Long-Term Care News, Feb. 2014



