A $16 million medical malpractice award went up in smoke last week when the Connecticut Supreme Court gave the Stamford Medical Group a new trial, and powerful new case law on the rights of defendants to apportion blame.
“The court is upholding the core values of the 1986 tort reform, abolishing joint and several liability,” proclaimed Jeffrey D. Babbin, of New Haven-based Wiggin & Dana. Babbin wrote an amicus curiae brief in the case on the behalf of the Connecticut Business and Industry Association.
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