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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 […]

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 […]

On July 11, 2022, Attorney Adam Maiocco obtained a dismissal of an investigation by the Department of Public Health that was brought against his client, a family medicine physician.  Attorney Maiocco was able to demonstrate that each one of the numerous allegations made by the patient were factually and/or medically […]