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$36.7M Connecticut Medical Malpractice Verdict For CMV In Donor Sperm Infecting Twins In Utero

July 19, 2021

In a 107-page Memorandum Of Decision dated June 28, 2021, a Connecticut Superior Court Judge awarded a husband and wife over $37.6 million in their Connecticut medical malpractice case filed against the State of Connecticut for medical negligence and lack of informed consent involving CMV-infected d[...]

Connecticut Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Connecticut Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Due To Attorney’s Failures To Prosecute The Case

December 23, 2020

In its opinion released on December 8, 2020, the Connecticut Appellate Court affirmed the lower court’s dismissal of the plaintiffs’ Connecticut medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit due to the repeated failures of their attorney to prosecute the case. The plaintiffs filed their Con[...]

Connecticut Supreme Court Holds Doctor Can Be Held Liable For STD Transmitted To Patient’s Girlfriend

July 15, 2019

In a four-to-three decision of the Connecticut Supreme Court filed on July 12, 2019, the Connecticut Supreme Court decided whether a physician who mistakenly informs a patient that he does not have a sexually transmitted disease (STD) may be held liable in ordinary negligence to the patient’s excl[...]

89-Year-Old Connecticut Woman Sues EMTs For Fall From Stretcher

February 14, 2019

An 89-year-old woman in Connecticut has filed a lawsuit against the EMTs that responded to her home and were transporting her to the hospital when they allegedly failed to secure her to the stretcher, thereby leading to her fall to the ground. The elderly woman claims that she was severely injured a[...]

Connecticut Supreme Court Applies Continuous Course Of Conduct Doctrine In Medical Malpractice Appeal

October 12, 2018

The Connecticut Supreme Court held in its opinion filed on September 25, 2018: “although we conclude that the trial court correctly determined that the record in the present case does not support application of the continuing course of treatment doctrine, we agree with the plaintiffs that the [...]

Connecticut Supreme Court Affirms $12M Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Hospital Based On Vicarious Liability

August 14, 2018

On August 10, 2018, the Connecticut Supreme Court affirmed a $12 million medical malpractice verdict against a hospital based on its vicarious liability for a surgical resident’s medical negligence that injured the plaintiff. The Connecticut Supreme Court stated that the primary issue in the C[...]

Connecticut Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Against Nurse Practitioner, Surgeon

July 18, 2015

The wife and two sons of a 56-year-old man who died in 2013 allegedly as a result of the medical negligence of his nurse practitioner and the surgeon who had performed his gallbladder surgery recently filed a medical malpractice lawsuit. The defendant nurse practitioner is alleged to have prescri[...]

Four Connecticut Nursing Homes Fined For Serious Deficiencies

November 13, 2013

The Connecticut Department of Public Health announced last week that it had issued two citations and fined a Connecticut nursing home $2,250 for three separate incidents: a resident who had dementia fractured her hip as a result of a fall and subsequently died in the hospital (a nurse’s [...]

Tick-Borne Encephalitis Leads To $41,750,000 Verdict

July 6, 2013

On March 27, 2013, after eight days of trial, a Connecticut federal jury returned a verdict in the amount of $41,750,000 in favor of a now 20-year-old New York woman who contracted a very serious disease as a result of a tick bite that she experienced during her high school trip to China that h[...]

Connecticut Nursing Home Sued For Alleged Sexual Assault

February 9, 2013

The family of a former Connecticut nursing home resident has filed a lawsuit against the nursing home, alleging that the nursing home resident was sexually assaulted in her room by an unknown person, on or about July 17, 2010. The resident died a few weeks after the alleged incident. The family[...]

Four Connecticut Nursing Home Choking Deaths In Three Months

August 5, 2012

Four Connecticut nursing home residents have died due to choking between February and April, 2012. The last case occurred on April 18, 2012, when a resident who suffered from dementia and needed to be carefully watched while she was eating, was seated in a wheelchair in the nursing home’s di[...]

Connecticut Medical Malpractice Claim For Fall From Operating Room Table

May 30, 2012

On May 22, 2012, a Connecticut medical malpractice case was filed on behalf of an elderly woman who had a pacemaker implanted in a Connecticut hospital during February, 2010, after which she fell from the operating room table, causing her to suffer a traumatic brain injury, a fractured pelvis, a f[...]

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