Verdicts & Settlements

Court Upholds $5 Million Malpractice Verdict

Tuesday, August 21, 2012  |  by CHRISTIAN NOLAN  |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

The state Supreme Court has upheld a $5 million jury verdict for a terminal cancer patient who claimed that her doctor failed to warn her that she had an increased risk of developing ovarian cancer.

Hostage Could Get $1 Million After Botched Robbery

Friday, August 17, 2012  |  by CHRISTIAN NOLAN  |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

Sara Socci, a now 36-year-old married mother of two from Norwalk, did not know what she was getting herself into when she took a part-time office job with Pasiak Construction Services in Stamford six years ago. Just over a week into her new job, she was tied-up, gagged and blindfolded in a robbery gone terribly wrong.

Company To Pay U.S. $50,000 For Overbilling

Friday, August 10, 2012  |  by CHRISTIAN NOLAN  |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

A Middletown-based energy information company has reached a civil settlement agreement for $50,000 with the federal government over allegations they fraudulently billed the U.S. Department of Energy.

Facing Pressures To Close, Franchisees Awarded $1.8 Million

Friday, August 10, 2012  |  by CHRISTIAN NOLAN  |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

A group of former San Francisco area Edible Arrangements franchisees were recently awarded nearly $1.8 million following arbitration in Connecticut that centered on accusations that the international chain tried putting some of their own stores out of business.

Former Female Cop Loses Discrimination Claim

Friday, August 3, 2012  |  by CHRISTIAN NOLAN  |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

A former Suffield police officer, who among her complaints accused the town police department of discriminating against her because she was pregnant, had her lawsuit tossed by a Connecticut federal judge last week.

Potential Doctor Loses Career, Settles For $1 Million

Friday, August 3, 2012  |  by CHRISTIAN NOLAN  |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

A man who was studying to be a doctor but had his career aspirations derailed after sustaining a head injury in a rear-end collision has settled his lawsuit for just over $1 million.

• Personal Injury

Litigation Nation

Friday, July 27, 2012 |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on July 18 announced its first enforcement action, charging Capital One Bank with deceptively marketing add-on credit card services including credit monitoring and payment protection plans.

State Nets $1.6 Million In Medicaid Fraud Case

Friday, July 27, 2012  |  by CHRISTIAN NOLAN  |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

According to both Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen and the state's top federal prosecutor, David Fein, WellCare Health Plans Inc. will pay $137.5 million overall to nine states and the federal government.

School Bus Crash Victims Settle For $6.5 Million

Friday, July 27, 2012  |  by CHRISTIAN NOLAN  |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

A group of Hartford area students who were passengers on a school bus that plummeted down an embankment on Interstate 84 after being struck by another vehicle have settled their legal claims for $6.5 million.

• Personal Injury

Towns, Colleges To Cash In On JP Morgan Settlement

Monday, July 23, 2012  |  by CHRISTIAN NOLAN  |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

Last year, JP Morgan Chase & Co. agreed to settle claims of anticompetitive and fraudulent conduct in the municipal bond derivatives industry for $92 million. According to Connecticut's Attorney General George Jepsen, the state will begin cashing in on the settlement. In all, 10 Connecticut municipalities, agencies or not-for-profit entities will collect more than $1 million in restitution. Those entities include Yale, Quinnipiac and Fairfield universities and the towns of Stratford and Fairfield.