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Connecticut Law Tribune

Middletown Jury Returns $3 Million Verdict: Meet the Lawyers

"Hopefully, this verdict and other verdicts we've had will transcend to insurance companies to change the status quo," Jonathan Bak of the Flood Law Firm said.
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Connecticut Law Tribune

$1M Settlement: Lawyer Finds Path Beyond Policy Limits

"The (prejudgment remedy) is what triggered the conversation for us to be able to get the defendant to pay something above and beyond the $1 million policy, because all other avenues were leading back to the $1 million policy itself," plaintiffs counsel Christopher Cramer said.
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Connecticut Law Tribune

Bridgeport Jury Awards $15M Verdict

Jurors awarded the estate of Nicholas Barone $10 million in compensatory damages and Kathryn Barone, the decedent's wife, was awarded $5 million in compensatory damages for her claim of loss of consortium.
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Connecticut Law Tribune

Rising Star Attorney Secures Major Settlements in 2 Months

"Slip-and-fall cases are difficult to try on both ends," Megan Boorsma said. "A case like this with a fracture is high risk. There's a big risk of us getting a defense verdict in a slip-and-fall case, but with an injury like this, there's definitely a risk that they would get a verdict. People always say like you never leave a mediation happy, neither side."
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Connecticut Law Tribune

Attorneys General Secure $10.25M Settlement With Major Phone Carriers

"We have all heard and seen advertisements announcing too-good-to-be-true cellphone deals, offering wireless devices for free or 'unlimited' data," California Attorney General Rob Bonta said. "Turns out, many of those deals are indeed too good to be true."
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Connecticut Law Tribune

Middletown Jury Awards $9 Million, Total Likely to Exceed $13 Million

"In this case, this verdict is not an outlier," plaintiffs counsel Andrew Garza said. "It's not some runaway verdict. It's fair compensation for someone who is young, who has lived and will live with this for the rest of their life."
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Connecticut Law Tribune

New Britain Jury Awards Plaintiff $540,000

"[The defendant] thought they had a strong defense on the causation, and I think they did have some stuff to say," plaintiff counsel Frank McCoy Jr. said. "They had effective defenses, but I think ultimately we prevailed with most of them."
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Connecticut Law Tribune

Stamford Jury Returns $5.5 Million Verdict

"Every other piece of evidence in the case was through that classroom lens, if you will, which I think was very beneficial," plaintiff counsel Michael Kennedy said.
4 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

$14.4 Million Award: Silver Golub & Teitell Secures Victory

"We're pleased that the jury rejected the attacks on Mr. and Mrs. Griswold during the trial and recognized the defendants' responsibility for causing Mr. Griswold's terrible injuries," Silver Golub & Teitell partner Joaquin Madry said. "This is yet another example of a jury sorting through a lot of misdirection and finding a just result."
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Connecticut Law Tribune

$17 Million Danbury Verdict Survives Motion to Set Aside

"We're very grateful to both of the jury and the judge for the extensive analysis of what the facts were in the case and what the law is," counsel for the plaintiffs, Barclay Damon partner Brian Donnell, said. "We're very appreciative of the efforts they both made bringing, what we hope, is a measure of justice for what's been going on here for more than a decade."
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