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Wife of former physician sues Danbury Hospital
The widow of a doctor who worked at Danbury Hospital for more than three decades is suing the hospital and one of its physicians, saying a pre-cancerous condition the doctor had in 1999 was...
Medical Malpractice 11/13/2008
Doctor's widow sues over diagnosis
The widow of a doctor from Southbury has sued the hospital where he practiced, claiming its top pathologist misdiagnosed his fatal throat cancer in 1999. Lawyers for Dr. Stanley "Shep" Saperstein...
Medical Malpractice 11/13/2008
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
Verdict Information Hard To Nail Down
Law has been called the best-documented of all the professions. Before and after a law is made, lagoons of ink are often spilled in discussing, evaluating and analyzing it. More and more case law...
Medical Malpractice 02/25/2008
Wrongful Death Case Full Of Lessons
A Judge has affirmed a jury's decision in the wrongful death of a truck driver. The family of the late Gary Carlson deserves more than $20 million as a result of medical malpractice. Atty. Josh...
Medical Malpractice 01/28/2008
Loss Of Life's Enjoyment Worth $3.5M
John P. Ackley, Administrator v. St. Vincent's Medical Center Gregory Ackley was a mentally challenged, unmarried man who lived with his father and traveled the Stratford enclave of Lordship by...
Medical Malpractice 11/26/2007
No Haven For The Elderly
Nursing home abuse and nursing home lawsuits reported in The Hartford Courant series; Atty. Josh Koskoff is quoted.
Medical Malpractice 11/18/2007
Malpractice to cost St. Vincent's $3.5m
Greg Ackley never held a full-time job, but he loved to tell people he finished first in his graduating class. That was by virtue of the spelling of his last name. Many Lordship residents would...
Medical Malpractice 11/14/2007
Jury: St. Vincent's Hospital should pay for preventable death
A Bridgeport Superior Court jury today awarded $3.5 million to the estate of a man who died in the emergency room of St. Vincent’s Medical Center, saying his treatment was negligent medical...
Medical Malpractice 11/13/2007
Is it too much to ask that your hospital be clean?
For years hospital and nursing home administrators have said there was little they could do to keep their facilities clean and that hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) were essentially unpreventable...
Medical Malpractice 10/31/2007
Hospitals: Come Clean
A patient who enters a hospital for a routine procedure should not have to face risks that may be as high as those for soldiers in a war zone, but that is just what is happening. A new report by...
Medical Malpractice 10/24/2007
Infection Killed Almost 19,000 in 2005, Study Says
Nearly 19,000 people died in the United States in 2005 after being infected with a virulent drug-resistant bacterium that has spread rampantly through hospitals and nursing homes, according to the...
Medical Malpractice 10/16/2007
Widow Wins Doctor Lawsuit
A Bridgeport jury says a family deserves $22.5 million in medical malpractice case, a verdict believed to be the largest ever award in a Connecticut wrongful death. Atty. Josh Koskoff represented...
Medical Malpractice 10/04/2007
Boy's Violent Birth Produces Record Verdict
Omar Earlington Jr., et al. v. Anthony Anastasi, et al.: A 4-year-old Windsor boy won a record $2.69 million verdict Oct. 31 for partial shoulder paralysis resulting from his unnecessarily violent...
Medical Malpractice 11/13/2006
Windsor boy, injured at birth, wins millions
A Hartford Superior Court jury this week awarded a medical malpractice verdict of almost $2.6 million to a 4-year-old Windsor boy who has permanent limitations on the use of his right arm due to...
Medical Malpractice 11/02/2006
$2.7 Million Awarded In Malpractice Suit
A young Windsor boy and his mother have secured what is believed to be the largest medical malpractice verdict ever in Connecticut for the type of injury he suffered during childbirth.
Medical Malpractice 11/01/2006
Their Life Ahead
Margaret Mueller and Charlotte Stacey are the first same-sex couple to seek legal compensation for loss of consortium in a medical malpractice suit.
Medical Malpractice, Civil Rights 07/19/2006
Lesbian couple files medical malpractice lawsuit
A lesbian couple filed a medical malpractice lawsuit Tuesday claiming botched cancer treatments damaged their love life. Their attorneys say it is the first of its kind under Connecticut's civil...
Medical Malpractice, Civil Rights 07/18/2006
A Waterbury jury says a family deserves $36.5 million in a medical malpractice case that left an infant brain damaged, blind and with cerebral palsy.
Atty. Christopher Bernard represented a Farmington Valley family in the case against Hartford Hospital and an obstetrician.
Medical Malpractice 11/29/2005
Jury says family deserves $1.75 million in medical malpractice case
A New Britain Superior Court jury Monday awarded $1.75 million to an Ellington couple in a medical malpractice case involving their daughter who died in 1996 after her doctor failed to diagnose her...
Medical Malpractice 04/13/2005
The 'Big Baby' In Med-Mal Case Was Not The Mother; Jurors disagreed with doctor's critical assessment
During the five-week medical malpractice trial of Waterbury obstetrician Thomas McNamee Jr., the five-man, one-woman jury was inscrutable. There were no nods of sympathetic recognition, as...
Medical Malpractice 03/21/2005
$2.4M awarded in medical case; Malpractice claim involved child birth
A jury has awarded a 9-year-old Waterbury girl $2.4 million in a medical malpractice suit brought against Dr. Thomas McNamee Jr., an obstetrician. From November 1994 to May 1995, Dr. McNamee...
Medical Malpractice 03/16/2005
New Canaan Family Awarded $1.8 Million In Birth Trauma Case Against Stamford Doctor
There will be no appeal in a medical malpractice case against at Stamford doctor that left an infant with life-long shoulder and arm injuries. A jury award of $1.757 million will stand, the lawyer...
Medical Malpractice 11/22/2004

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