2004 Archive:

• $4.7 million wrongful death verdict, resulting in $5.7 million judgment, against volunteer firefighter who killed a young mother while driving dangerously.
  
  
• $545,000 recovery for patient with back injuries, resulting in a laminectomy, following a motor vehicle/tractor trailer crash on snowy I-95.
  
  
• $500,000 settlement in a case involving a technology company whose proprietary software and trade secrets were stolen by its former corporate partner.
  
  
• $450,000 settlement for wrongful death of a 94-year-old man who died following a car accident. Largest settlement in Connecticut history involving the wrongful death of a person in his 90’s.
  
  
• Confidential settlement in toxic tort case involving a young woman who suffered benzene poisoning several years after consuming well water that was heavily contaminated by a nearby petroleum supplier.
  
  
• Confidential settlement involving a three-year-old who suffered permanent scarring after being trapped in the teeth of an improperly maintained escalator at a train station.
  
  
• Confidential settlement resulting from a dangerous highway construction project that led to a young worker badly injured as construction equipment was moved onto traveled portions of Interstate 95.
  
  
• $90,000 settlement resulting from a boating accident on the Connecticut River when defendant failed to provide the right of way, causing a head-on collision.