Top Rated Medical Malpractice Attorney in New Haven, CT

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

Videos:

• CNN: Patient accuses Yale doctors of cover-up, removing wrong body part, 2016