submitting further bills” given U.S. Fire’s oversight, years earlier, with respect to the first billing packet that the Museum had sent in 2005. When efforts toward global settlement ultimately failed, U.S. Fire offered the Museum a significant sum to settle the unreimbursed defense costs and associated issues, which apparently went unanswered. Then, in June 2011, the Museum spotlighted — for the first time — U.S. Fire’s post-2007 settlement conduct as the primary impetus for Chapter 93A, § 11 liability and punitive damages. U.S. Fire’s conduct under these circumstances is not the kind that the SJC has condemned as egregious settlement misconduct that is actionable under Chapter 93A. Cf. R.W. Granger & Sons, Inc. v. J & S Insulation, Inc., 435 Mass. 66, 754 N.E.2d 668, 678-79 (2001) (<HOLDING>). By no means do we endorse some of the
holding defendant culpable for the natural and probable consequence   of his conduct holding that summary judgment on chapter 93a claim is appropriate when summary judgment is granted on fraud claim and chapter 93a claim is solely based on the underlying claim for common law fraud holding that the suretys conduct of unexplained delay hollow settlement effort and groundless legal stance comprised culpable unfair business conduct under chapter 93a holding that the city of springfield was potentially liable under chapter 93a holding that where there was no evidence of the claimed underlying violation and where there were no unique arguments related to the chapter 93a claim defendant was entitled to summary judgment on plaintiffs chapter 93a claim