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Connecticut Appellate Court Affirms Plaintiffs’ Medical Malpractice Verdict In Loss Of Testicle Following Vasectomy Case

September 1, 2017

The Connecticut Appellate Court issued an opinion on August 11, 2017 in which it affirmed the judgment entered in favor of the plaintiffs (husband and wife) in the amount of $386,249.81 following a bench trial in which the plaintiffs alleged that the defendant urologist negligently performed a vase[...]

Connecticut Appellate Court Affirms Defense Verdict In Botched Circumcision Case

July 29, 2017

In its decision released on July 18, 2017, a Connecticut appellate court affirmed the defense verdict in a Connecticut medical malpractice case in which the plaintiffs alleged that their son was injured when the defendant pediatrician negligently performed a circumcision procedure on him, thereby re[...]

Connecticut Supreme Court Discusses “Relation Back Doctrine” In Medical Malpractice Case

April 24, 2017

In its written opinion released in advance on April 3, 2017, the Connecticut Supreme Court clarified the contours of the relation back doctrine as applied to medical malpractice claims, holding that the Connecticut Appellate Court properly held that the plaintiff’s amended medical malp[...]

Connecticut Federal Judge Says Allowing Patient To Fall Off Operating Room Table Is Ordinary Negligence

April 1, 2017

On March 7, 2017, a federal judge in Connecticut held that allowing a patient to fall off of an operating room table was ordinary negligence and not medical negligence because preventing that patient from falling off the operating room table was not something that required any medical training at a[...]

Failure To Timely File Medical Malpractice Case In Connecticut Leads To Legal Malpractice Victory

December 23, 2016

On November 17, 2016, a Connecticut legal malpractice jury made up of six jurors took only two hours of deliberations to return its verdict against a medical malpractice attorney and in favor of the mother of a 25-year-old man who allegedly died as a result of medical malpractice. The medical malpr[...]

$4.2M Connecticut Medical Malpractice Verdict In Erb’s Palsy Birth Injury Case

November 8, 2016

On October 28, 2016, a Connecticut birth injury jury returned its verdict in the amount of $4.2 million in favor of a child who suffered Erb’s palsy as a result of medical negligence during his delivery in 2009. The Connecticut medical malpractice lawsuit that was filed in 2011 alleged that bi[...]

Connecticut Supreme Court Adopts Apparent Agency Doctrine In Medical Malpractice Case

June 16, 2016

In its opinion published on June 14, 2016, the Connecticut Supreme Court, in a four-to-three decision, adopted and applied the apparent agency doctrine in a Connecticut medical malpractice case. At issue was whether the defendant surgeon, who was not an employee of the defendant hospital where the[...]

$12M Connecticut Psychiatric Malpractice Verdict For Patient’s Suicide

May 3, 2016

On April 25, 2016, a Connecticut medical malpractice jury returned its verdict against the defendant hospital and the defendant psychiatric advanced-practice registered nurse, holding them responsible for the suicide death of a former psychiatric patient who killed himself due to allegedly negligen[...]

$1.8M Connecticut Medical Malpractice Verdict For Wrong Fallopian Tube Cut During Surgery

April 27, 2016

On April 19, 2016, after three hours of deliberations, a Connecticut medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a woman whose wrong fallopian tube was cut during surgery performed by the defendant surgeon, leading to the 28-year-old woman’s sterility. The Connecticut medical mal[...]

Connecticut Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Wrong Rib Removed

March 31, 2016

A Connecticut medical malpractice lawsuit filed on March 14, 2016 alleges that the plaintiff’s surgeon removed a portion of the wrong rib during her surgery on May 18, 2015 that was supposed to remove a lesion on an adjacent rib. The plaintiff’s medical malpractice lawsuit further claims[...]

Large Connecticut Medical Malpractice Verdict Results In Grievances Filed Against The Plaintiffs’ Lawyers

March 23, 2016

The medical malpractice lawyers who represented the plaintiffs in a Connecticut medical malpractice case that resulted in a large medical malpractice verdict in the plaintiffs’ favor are fighting the grievances filed against them by their former clients. The grievances allege that the plaintif[...]

Connecticut Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Against Surgical Center After Patient’s Death

March 20, 2016

A 29-year-old woman who was undergoing elective sinus surgery at a free-standing surgical center in Connecticut died after her vital signs dangerously dropped and an ambulance was not called for up to 29 minutes, resulting in the woman’s death, according to the Connecticut medical malpractice [...]

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