Connecticut medical malpractice lawyers Archives

Connecticut Hospital Sued For Wrongful Death Of Restrained Patient In Mental Crisis

August 19, 2025

On June 5, 2025, a medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit was filed in a Connecticut state court by the administrator of the estate of a patient who died while she was a restrained patient receiving mental health crisis care in a hospital. The Complaint states, in part: On the evening of April 2[...]

Connecticut Supreme Court Holds Claims Against Physician Who Used His Own Sperm During IVF That Resulted In Pregnancies Are For Ordinary Negligence, And Are Not Claims For Wrongful Life

March 14, 2025

The plaintiffs, who are both in their thirties, were conceived through IVF. The defendant is the reproductive endocrinologist who performed the IVF procedures for the plaintiffs’ respective parents. Unbeknownst to the plaintiffs’ parents, the defendant used his own sperm in the IVF procedures. T[...]

Connecticut Supreme Court Revives Medical Malpractice Case Against The State

February 10, 2025

On December 17, 2015, pursuant to § 4-160 (b), the plaintiff filed a notice of claim with the claims commissioner, seeking permission to sue the state for medical malpractice, both individually and in her representative capacity as administratrix of the decedent’s estate. In the notice of claim, [...]

Connecticut Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Patient Restrained Over 165 Hours During Eight Days Before His Death

December 20, 2024

A 50-year-old man with a history of adult-onset bipolar disorder, often with paranoia, had a psychotic episode on August 4, 2022 at which time he was reportedly found to be smashing windows, likely triggered by a plumbing failure that caused flooding in his home. When police arrived, the man was fou[...]

$2.5M Connecticut Medical Malpractice Verdict For Compartment Syndrome Following Broken Leg

December 12, 2023

On October 6, 2023, a Connecticut medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $2,590,194 in favor of the plaintiff who claimed he suffered permanent injury from improperly treated compartment syndrome after he had fractured his leg. The six-person jury deliberated for four hours b[...]

Connecticut Supreme Court Discusses State Immunity From Medical Malpractice Claims

October 25, 2023

The Alleged Facts Connecticut operates the University of Connecticut Health Center/John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington, which provides prenatal care and labor and delivery services through the UConn Health Women’s Center (UConn). BetweenSeptember 1, 2019, and March 25, 2020, UConn undertook the ca[...]

$8.5M Connecticut Medical Malpractice Verdict

April 28, 2023

On April 25, 2023, a Connecticut medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $8.5 million for the surviving wife and the estate of a man who died after total knee replacement surgery at a private surgical practice. The jury determined that the defendant, Orthopaedic Sports Special[...]

Connecticut Appellate Court Applies Wrongful Conduct Rule To Preclude Medical Malpractice Claim

April 1, 2023

Wrongful Conduct Rule Court Applies Wrongful Conduct Rule To Preclude Claim: The generally articulated common-law wrongful conduct rule provides that a plaintiff cannot maintain a tort action for injuries that are sustained as the direct result of his or her knowing and intentional participation in [...]

23-Year-Old Died At Yale-New Haven Hospital After Being Left Alone In The Emergency Room For Over 7 hours

November 16, 2022

23-Year-Old Dead After Being Left Alone In The Emergency Room: A recently filed Connecticut medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of a 23-year-old man who was left alone and not checked on by medical staff during his seven hour stay in the emergency department of Yale-New Ha[...]

Connecticut Supreme Court Affirms Dismissal Of Medical Malpractice Case For Failure To File Sufficient Expert Opinion Letters

February 8, 2022

In its opinion filed on January 13, 2022 in a Connecticut medical malpractice case that was dismissed by the lower court, the Connecticut Supreme Court stated: “we must determine whether the plaintiff met her burden of proving that her attorney’s admitted failure to know of two Appellate Cou[...]

Fertility Patients Sue Yale University After Nurse Stole Fentanyl And Replaced It With Saline

November 21, 2021

On November 17, 2021, seven women filed a lawsuit against Yale University for its alleged failure to safeguard the fentanyl supply at its Yale University Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility clinic in Orange, Connecticut last year which caused them to suffer unecessary, excruciating pain. The [...]

Connecticut Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Medical Malpractice Complaint Filed Without An Opinion Letter

November 3, 2021

In its opinion released on September 14, 2021, the Connecticut Appellate Court held in a medical malpractice case, “we agree with the trial court’s decision to grant the defendants’ motions to dismiss, as it is undisputed that the plaintiffs failed to comply with § 52-190a (a), and the ru[...]

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