Joel T. Faxon

Attorney Profile
Top Rated Medical Malpractice Attorney in New Haven, CT
- Personal Injury - Medical Malpractice: Plaintiff (40%),
- Personal Injury - General: Plaintiff (40%),
- Personal Injury - Products: Plaintiff (20%)
A board certified civil trial lawyer and co-founder of Faxon Law Group, Joel T. Faxon handles life-altering injury and death cases, commercial truck crashes, highway defect claims, malpractice, birth trauma, and product liability. Innovative in his thinking and tireless in his approach, Joel assertively handles his client’s cases as if they were his own and has won several important appeals in the Connecticut Supreme Court and Federal Appeals Courts, including Witt v. St. Vincent’s Medical Center, a medical malpractice case which led to a Supreme Court decision extending the statute of limitations for all victims of medical malpractice.
Certificates and Credentials
Top Lists
- Top 50: 2020 Connecticut Super Lawyers
- Top 100: 2019 New England Super Lawyers
- Top 50: 2018 Connecticut Super Lawyers
- Top 100: 2018 New England Super Lawyers
- Top 50: 2017 Connecticut Super Lawyers
- Top 100: 2017 New England Super Lawyers
- Top 10: 2016 Connecticut Super Lawyers
- Top 100: 2016 New England Super Lawyers
- Top 50: 2016 Connecticut Super Lawyers
- Top 100: 2015 New England Super Lawyers
- Top 50: 2015 Connecticut Super Lawyers
- Top 10: 2015 Connecticut Super Lawyers
- Top 50: 2014 Connecticut Super Lawyers
- Top 10: 2014 Connecticut Super Lawyers
- Top 100: 2014 New England Super Lawyers
- Top 100: 2013 New England Super Lawyers
- Top 50: 2013 Connecticut Super Lawyers
- Top 10: 2013 Connecticut Super Lawyers
- Top 100: 2012 New England Super Lawyers
- Top 50: 2012 Connecticut Super Lawyers
- Top 100: 2011 New England Super Lawyers
- Top 50: 2011 Connecticut Super Lawyers
About Joel Faxon
Admitted: 1995, Connecticut
Professional Webpage: http://www.faxonlawgroup.com/bios/joel-t-faxon
Honors/Awards:
- Listed in personal injury litigation section of Best Lawyers in America
- AV-Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
- Recognized as a Super Lawyer in Connecticut (Top 10), New York, and New England (Top 50)
Special Licenses/Certifications:
- American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) - elected to membership by fellow ABOTA members
- National Board of Trial Advocacy (Civil Trial Advocacy Specialist)
Bar/Professional Activity:
- States of Connecticut, New York and Vermont; U.S. District Courts (Districts of Connecticut, Vermont, and Southern and Eastern Districts of New York); U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal (Second and Fourth Circuit); and the U.S. Supreme Court
Scholarly Lectures/Writings:
- Author, The Plaintiff's Perspective, Truck Accident Litigation, American Bar Association, 2006
- ..., Presenter, Autopalooza: Proving Future Damages, Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, 2019
- Author, Update: Overcoming the Feared ERISA Lien or Superlien, Connecticut Law Tribune, 2008
- Author, Underinsured Motorist Claims: Soup to Nuts, NBI, Inc., 2006
- Author, Commissioner's Decision on Compensability--Is it Binding on an ERISA Plan's Assertion of an Equitable Lien by Agreement in Connecticut?, Workers' Compensation Quarterly, CBA, 2014
- Author, Getting the Ugly Out of Medicare, Medicaid, ERISA and other alleged third party liens, Faxon Law Group, 2012
- Presenter, 31st Annual College of Evidence: Gordils vs. State, CTLA, 2013
- Presenter, The Essentials of Mediation and Negotiation, CBA, 2015
- Author, Defective Medical Device Makers May Have Immunity, Connecticut Law Tribune, 2009
- Author, Fighting Back Against Erisa Liens, Connecticut Law Tribune, 2008
Verdicts/Settlements:
- In 2019, obtained reversal of the dismissal of a wrongful death case against Metro North where the railroad asked the U.S. Supreme Court to immunize it from state jury trials.
- $44 million in lifetime benefits obtained against a Connecticut hospital for a birth trauma case resulting in a child's permanent cerebral palsy.
- In 2017, arbitrated a $93 million award for several of the victims of the Middletown Power Plant Explosion
- In 2005, obtained the largest settlement in history in a sexual abuse case involving a parish priest.
- Served as lead counsel in Barbarula v. Canal Insurance Co., 353 F.Supp.2d 246 (D.Conn.2004), which established a new basis for an insurer’s liability under federal trucking regulations.
- In 2013, record $25 million jury verdict against the state for a man catastrophically injured by a speeding police cruiser.
- $30 million in combined settlements resulting from I-95 commercial trucking transit crash. Highest recovery at the time for single non-dependent wrongful death case in Connecticut history.
- In 2012, $23,350,000 was awarded in the largest construction-related, pre-trial personal injury settlement in Connecticut history.
Other Outstanding Achievements:
- Listed among the Top 10 personal injury lawyers in the state and the 50 Best Lawyers in New England., 2015
Industry Groups
- Personal Injury Litigation
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Last Updated: 6/23/2020