Anthony R. DiFruscia

Attorney DiFruscia is smart and charming which is great, for some professions. However, he does not follow through or follow up on issues and has to be reminded time and again to do so. He reprsented my disabled sister to get visitation rights with her children and to get the retirement benefits ...that she was awarded in the divorce settlement. I went with her to every visit and she never got visitation, nor did she get the divorce settlement. She passed away in 2008 and Attorney DiFruscia handled her estate (and I was Executor). He seems kind and compassionate. However, one has to look at actioons as well as words. My sister's estate had a problem with hospital bills and Medicaid. I told DiFruscia that I saw a letter from MassHealth that stated she was eligible for benefits after an offset, and that the hospital should not have been billing her estate. I spent more than an hour discussing this with him and left thinking that he would take care of that. He did not. Nearly 8 months later the hospital sued the estate. He did not respond to the lawsuit (I didn't get notice) until it was completed and a lien put on my sister's condo. One of his staff members wrote a motion (which I had to edit because the writing was so bad) addressing the lien.... apparently he didn't follow up on that either because months later there was no word on the outcome. I have a friend who is a lawyer and went to a meeting with Attorney DiFruscia and me. DiFruscia felt threatened and said he would put a lien on my sister's property (which he did) for charges for the lawsuit he filed that didn't need to be fired. My friend suggested I get a new lawyer who handled estates which I did. The lawyer worked with the hospital and I worked with MassHealth to resolve the problem. Within 6 weeks MassHealth took over the hospital bill and the lien was lifted from my sister's condo. When I look at the bills from DiFruscia dealing with my sister's estate, I see thouosands of dollars that would not have incurred had he worked with MassHealth and the hospital in the first place. I say if you need a lawyer, look elsewhere.