After a two-week trial, Attorney Michael Rigg obtained a defense verdict in a medical malpractice action that was tried to a judge. Plaintiff had sued two OB/GYNs and a hospital, claiming that the physicians negligently performed a hysterectomy and two other procedures that caused severe injury. SOC proved that both […]
02 May - 2024
02 May
SOC Partner, Sandy Roussas, obtained a judgment in New Haven Superior Court on behalf of a Connecticut Hospital, two trauma surgeons and an anesthesiologist arising out of an emergency blood transfusion administered to the patient and a subsequent emergency exploratory laparotomy. Plaintiff alleged medical battery, claiming that he did not […]
01 April - 2024
01 Apr
Attorneys Rigg and Maiocco successfully appealed a trial court’s denial of their motion to dismiss in Harvin v. Yale New Haven Health Services Corp., 225 Conn. App. 171, 315 A.3d 365 (2024). The Appellate Court agreed that the Litigation Privilege protected a hospital and its staff from liability in which the plaintiff claimed […]
Adam Maiocco obtained a defense verdict on behalf of Prospect Waterbury Inc. a/k/a Waterbury Hospital after a 4-day jury trial in Waterbury Superior Court. Plaintiff claimed that a hospital-employed security guard who was driving a nurse home in a hospital-owned vehicle crashed into her driver’s side door and caused her […]
