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Coverage of large verdicts and case digests of significant cases
By Colleen Murphy | September 8, 2023
A $2.15 million settlement was reached for the estate of a 24-year-old man who was fatally injured when the brakes failed in dump truck he was operating for his employer.
4 minute read
By VerdictSearch | September 7, 2023
On June 21, 2013, plaintiff's decedent Faith Dixon, 53, presented to St. Joseph's Hospital with complaints of shortness of breath. She was diagnosed with an exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, even though she had never been diagnosed with COPD.
5 minute read
By Fadja Tassy | August 31, 2023
People are increasingly attending concerts, sports and other events in large numbers. Recent events highlighting the issues this can cause demonstrate the need for efficient egress and ingress to provide safety and avoid the potential for litigation.
6 minute read
By Lisa Willis | August 28, 2023
"The biggest hurdle was making sure we found people that understood," plaintiff counsel Joseph Anthony Zarzaur said.
4 minute read
By Michael A. Mora | August 24, 2023
"Agencies that are designed to protect our children can't fail with impunity," said Justin Grosz, a partner at Kelley Kronenberg.
3 minute read
By Aleeza Furman | August 23, 2023
"We felt strongly that her life was as precious to her family as it would have been had she been younger, and that we shouldn't let the formalistic aspects of wage loss or medical expenses control the resolution," Shanin Specter said.
3 minute read
By Marc A. Lieberstein and Christopher M. Caiaccio | August 23, 2023
In this article, Marc Lieberstein and Christopher Caiaccio discuss whether a franchisor may be held vicariously liable for the actions of a franchisee or the franchisee's employee in a wrongful death action and suggest ways a franchisor may be able to avoid such liability.
7 minute read
By Alex Anteau | August 18, 2023
"This is an issue that's being raised in basically all of the recent large medical-malpractice judgments, so it seems it's going to make its way into the court of appeals on way or another in the near future," said a plaintiffs' lawyer arguing against one appeal.
4 minute read
By Emily Cousins | August 18, 2023
"Even though the providers made that claim, it is apparent that the insurance carriers continued to charge premiums for malpractice," Robert C. Lubus Jr. of Grady & Riley said. "Here, the Connecticut Supreme Court made it clear that in order to use the executive order as a shield, the malpractice had to have some relation to COVID or to a lack of resources caused by COVID. The facts of our case are such that we are confident that the nursing home will never be able to sustain this burden."
6 minute read
By Charles Toutant | August 10, 2023
"We are grateful to the judiciary for recognizing that the jury's unanimous verdict was firmly based on negligence, and not on any conduct immunized by the Tort Claims Act," Donald Burke Jr., lawyer for the widow, said.
5 minute read
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