Legal Question in Construction Law in Massachusetts

We hired an uninsured, unlicensed contractor to put an addition on our home. The addition was not built according to specs and his reply was that the "blueprints are only a concept - the builder can do what he wants". Since the near completion of the project - we actually fired him before he finished because we ran out of money (the project ended up costing three times the quote) - we have had to have blown in insulation installed because there was no insulation in our outside walls which was causing our kitchen pipes to freeze up in the winter and now we have a major leak in the dining room because the contractor didn't know how to connect the additions roof to the existing house correctly - we have what the contractor called a "cricket" which has a 6" rise above the existing house roof where ice dams form. I was wondering what kind of recourse if any do we have against this contractor? I know we can contact our homeowners insurance to get our ceiling fixed but we need to have the roofs connected properly so this doesn't continue to happen. Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
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Asked on 1/27/11, 4:15 pm

Paul Lancia Attorney Paul Lancia

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Lawsuit against the contractor. Need to get all of your information together fast.

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Answered on 2/07/11, 6:19 pm

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