Quick Links
results | find attorney | refer a case

In the News

News Library

Title Practice Areas Date
Sean McElligott interviewed for "The Early Show"
The CBS morning program, "The Early Show," featured a lawsuit against Greenwich Hospital. Atty. Sean McElligott represents women asking the court to certify the case as a class action. The suit...
Medical Malpractice, Class Actions 10/27/2008
Addicted Doctor Prompts Potential Class Action
Greenwich Hospital boasted on its web site that it had assembled the “newest technology and a team of breast cancer specialists into one comprehensive Breast Center.” The hospital hosted online chats...
Medical Malpractice, Class Actions 10/13/2008
8 women sue Greenwich Hospital over plastic surgeon
After a 2006 surgery by Dr. Ian Rubins, the Greenwich plastic surgeon who died of a heroin overdose in January, Stamford resident Robin Lyons' breast swelled up to her collar bone. A breast cancer...
Medical Malpractice, Class Actions 10/09/2008
Suit Seeks More Than $4 Million In Man's Death
A lawsuit filed against the Whiting Forensic Division of Connecticut Valley Hospital and others involved in the care of a 39-year-old psychiatric patient who died of a heart attack while being...
Class Actions, Civil Rights 01/30/2004
State hospital sued over man's death
As James Bell lay dying after being restrained at a state hospital nearly two years ago, more than a dozen doctors, nurses, and guards stood watch, contending they thought the obese psychiatric...
Class Actions, Civil Rights 01/29/2004
Mentally Ill Man In State Custody Dies
A severely mentally ill 39-year-old man died while in custody at the state’s maximum security mental hospital as the man’s doctors, nurses and guards watched and did nothing. Today, the man’s family...
Class Actions, Civil Rights 01/29/2004
Antonio Ponvert III's Connecticut Department of Correction Sex Harassment Press Statement
Ladies and gentleman, thank you for coming today. Under the best of circumstances, the Connecticut Department of Correction is a dangerous and difficult workplace. This state's prisons are...
Class Actions, Civil Rights 08/08/2002
Harassment suit filed against Department of Correction
Female correction officers in Connecticut say they have had enough and will not tolerate sexual harassment by their fellow officers anymore. Eight officers have filed a class action lawsuit charging...
Class Actions, Civil Rights 08/08/2002
Smokers file lawsuit against states over tobacco settlement
Smokers in eight states filed class-action lawsuits this week to obtain a share of the multibillion-dollar settlement that the states won from tobacco companies. Larry Tyler is one of the...
Class Actions 01/28/2000
Medicaid recipients sue 12 states for tobacco settlement proceeds
Class action lawsuits were filed in federal courts in six states yesterday claiming a potentially large share of the $206 billion national tobacco settlement for victims of smoking, who received...
Class Actions 01/27/2000

© 2008 Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder, PC. All Rights Reserved.

350 Fairfield Avenue · Bridgeport, CT 06604 · (800) 366-4421 · (203) 368-3244 fax

Visitors are cautioned that the information contained in this website is necessarily generic in nature and not intended to be applied as guidance or recommendation from Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder, PC regarding any specific situation or circumstance. Visitors are advised read our full disclaimer.