A Connecticut railroad worker received a judgment of more than $1 million in damages in a jury trial against his employer, Metro-North Railroad. The plaintiff, Andy Barati, alleged that Metro-North retaliated against him by unlawfully firing him after he reported concerns with workplace safety. T...
A Greenwich, Connecticut man recently received a sentence of probation over a 2010 boating accident off the coast near Madaket in Nantucket. The August 2010 accident, described as a “hit-and-run boating collision,” injured two people, sending both to the hospital. Nearly a year later, in July 20...
Just over a year ago, 20 year-old University of Connecticut student David Plamondon was killed when a campus shuttle bus struck him as he was crossing an intersection. The accident occurred on campus at about 8:15 p.m. on Tuesday, March 22, 2011. Emergency responders pronounced Plamondon dead at ...
A pending rule intended to improve the safety of cars and other light vehicles by increasing the driver's field of vision has been delayed for a second time. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood announced last month that the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) wou...
The Appellate Court of Connecticut issued an opinion on a case that could have an impact on other personal injury claims. In Connecticut Insurance Guaranty Association v. Drown, an appellate panel held that the appellant, a guaranty company covering an insolvent insurance company, is not obligate...
An automobile accident in the early morning hours of February 14, 2012 killed two people and injured two more, and led to a search for a pickup truck that allegedly fled the scene. The crash occurred around 1:00 a.m. on Route 191 in Enfield, Connecticut. A pickup truck struck a Nissan Sentra, cau...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued a warning to pharmacists and other medical professionals of the potential for confusion between two medications on the market, Durezol and Durasal. Although they have similar-sounding names, the two drugs have very different purposes. Du...
To meet the need for immediate step by step on scene assistance for Connecticut motor vehicle drivers involved in an collision a new Car Accident app has been made available without cost. Very few persons involved in a car crash would think to get legal advice or retain a lawyer instantly in orde...
The parties in a lawsuit arising from a 2009 car accident have filed an application for a compromise claim with the Probate Court in Milford, Connecticut. The family of David Serwin filed state and federal lawsuits against the city of Milford, its police department, and two police officers. The p...
Police in Danbury, Connecticut announced the arrest of 22 year-old Eugene Robinson in connection with the November 2011 hit-and-run death of Dong Lin. Lin, a non-matriculated student at Western Connecticut State University, died on November 22 after a car hit him as he crossed the street. We prev...
A recent outbreak of foodborne illnesshas sickened at least twelve people in five states. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced last week that raw sprouts at Jimmy John's restaurants were contaminated with E. Coli bacteria. The contaminated sprouts are believed to have co...
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) issued a series of non-binding guidelines to automakers last week, requesting that any integrated electronic devices placed in new cars have a feature disabling social networks like Facebook and Twitter while the car is in motion. DOT may also develop g...
A Pennsylvania construction worker who was paralyzed in a 2001 hit and run accident has received a $3 million workers' compensation settlement, believed to be one of the largest settlements ever. His case has been, to put it mildly, a rollercoaster ride through many of the most difficult obstacle...
A teenage hiker died last Sunday in a tragic fall at Sleeping Giant, a ridge located in Connecticut's Sleeping Giant State Park. Tobias Engel, an 18 year-old high school senior, was hiking alone when he fell about two hundred feet off of a cliff at around 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, February 5. Other hi...
Two volunteer firefighters in Portland, Connecticut suffered serious injuries last year while responding to a fire at a duplex home. A backhoe operator clearing snow from the home's driveway on Saturday, January 29, 2011, accidentally ruptured the underground propane tank located behind the house...
A tragic saga involving sexual abuse of poor children at a school in Haiti began a new chapter earlier this month, when seventeen Haitian men filed a lawsuit against Fairfield University, a Jesuit college in Connecticut, and others for damages arising from sexual abuse by Douglas Perlitz. Perlitz...
A 39 year-old construction contractorwas killed the afternoon of Sunday, January 8, 2012, when he was thrown from the excavator he was operating and pinned between it and a building. Firefighters responded at 4:00 p.m. to a report that a man was wedged between his equipment and the wall of a buil...
St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford is nearing a settlement of seventeen pending lawsuits relating to horrific accounts of sexual abuse of children by a doctor there between 1963 and 1993. The hospital's insurance company is attempting to limit liability by characterizing the clai...
A freak accident on an elevator in a Midtown Manhattan office building has taken the life of a 41 year-old woman and shocked an entire city. Suzanne Hart died on the morning of December 14, 2011 as she stepped onto the elevator on the way to her job at an advertising firm. With the elevator doors...
The woman responsible for a fatal crash in May 2011 pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter in late November. Yadira Torres, a 26 year-old warehouse worker, agreed to serve between five and eight years in prison. A judge will determine the specific length of sentencing in February. Torres has no...
A 19 year-old student at Western Connecticut State University died after a hit-and-run accident on Tuesday, November 22, 2011. Dong Lin, a commuter student at the university who resided in Brookfield, was struck by a car around 5:30 p.m. while crossing White Street in Danbury. Police responded to...
An equipment malfunction may have caused a U-Haul truck to crash into a tailgate party outside the Yale University football stadium, killing one person and injuring two more, according to the truck's driver. Police are still investigating the crash and its possible causes. For a personal injury l...
A police officer in West Haven was injured shortly after midnight on Saturday, November 13 by an alleged drunk driver, reports the New Haven Register. The officer was on patrol when a car turning onto Boston Post Road struck his vehicle at about 2:15 a.m. The officer was taken by ambulance to a n...
A construction worker died from injuries sustained in a fall at a Stamford work site on October 25, 2011. The man was reportedly installing a roof at the new Chelsea Piers sports complex. In gusty wind conditions, and without wearing a safety harness, he fell 50 feet to his death around 1:00 p.m....
Department of Transportation worker who lost part of her leg in the back of a dump truck while getting it ready for winter snow operations received a 3.6 million dollar verdict in Waterbury Superior Court on November 1, 2011. Her boot was entrained in the moving conveyor chain during a maintenanc...
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