SEX ABUSE LAWSUIT SAYS BRIDGEPORT DIOCESE KNEW OF PRIEST'S 'BIZARRE' BEHAVIOR
March 4, 2010,The Hartford Courant, by Josh Kovner
By the time the Rev. John Castaldo began molesting a boy named Brooks Thopsey at a Roman Catholic church in Trumbull roughly two decades ago, he had already exhibited behavior that should have kept him from the priesthood, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday on Thopsey's behalf.
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NEW CHURCH SEX SUIT: CONNECTICUT MAN SAYS EGAN PLACED TROUBLED PRIEST WHO MOLESTED HIM
March 4, 2010, Daily News Staff Writer, by Corky Siemaszko
A Connecticut man claims he was molested as a kid by a pedophile priest who was assigned to his parish by New York's former Edward Cardinal Egan.
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AG PUSHES FOR PUBLIC MEDICAL DISCLOSURE
March 1, 2010, WTNH
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says since 2004 about 116 people in our state have died due to medical errors.
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FIRST LAWSUIT FILED IN KLEEN ENERGY BLAST
February 23, 2010, The Hartford Courant, by Dave Altimari, Josh Kovner, and Edmund H. Mahoney
Two electricians who survived the Kleen Energy power plant explosionin Middletown have filed the first lawsuit against the contractor conducting the gas line purge that claimed the lives of six people and injured 26 others.
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STRATTON FAXON FILES FIRST LAWSUIT REGARDING POWER PLANT EXPLOSION IN MIDDLETOWN. EXPLOSION SETS OFF LITIGATION
February 23, 2010, The CT Law Tribune, by Thomas B. Scheffey
Six hours after the Kleen Energy power plant blew up in Middletown on Feb. 7, New Haven plaintiffs’ lawyer Michael Stratton and his private investigator were surveying the wreckage.
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SUIT ALLEGES CONNECTICUT PLANT IGNORED SAFETY PROCEDURES
February 22, 2010, The Associated Press, by John Christoffersen
This Feb. 7, 2010 cell phone photo released by the Stratton Faxon law firm on behalf of Timothy Hilliker shows a gas-fueled torch heater at the Kleen Energy Systems plant in Middletown, Conn.
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$1.56M AWARDED TO ESTATE OF WOMAN WHO DIED AT HARTFORD HOSPITAL
January 23, 2010, The Hartford Courant, by Arielle Levin Becker
Hartford Hospital lost a malpractice case Friday when a jury awarded $1.56 million to the estate of a 44-year-old East Hartford woman who died after suffering cardiac arrest at the hospital in 2004.
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CHIMP VICTIM'S FAMILY FACES UPHILL BATTLE TO SUE STATE
December 17, 2009, The Hartford Courant, by Josh Kovner
The months before and after Charla Nash was mauled by a chimpanzee were marked by confusion and inaction at the Department of Environmental Protection — events that now would seem to bolster the family's quest to sue the state for $150 million.
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HIDDEN MISTAKES IN HOSPITALS
November 15, 2009, The Hartford Courant, by Matthew Kauffman and Dave Altimari
After a few weeks of nagging shoulder pain, Jonathan Faile of Fairfield drove with his wife to Bridgeport Hospital and walked into the emergency room early on the morning of Saturday, March 22, 2005.
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BIG SETTLEMENT RAISES JOB SITE LIABILITY ISSUES
November 2, 2009, The CT Law Tribune, by Thomas B. Scheffey
In the highest-ever construction injury settlement in Connecticut history, and one of the state’s costliest personal injury cases, a North Canaan laborer has settled a federal negligence suit for $11.35 million.
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EFFORT TO SETTLE LAWSUITS IN REARDON CHILD SEX-ABUSE CASE FAILS
October 9, 2009, The Hartford Courant, by Arielle Levin Becker
More than 100 lawsuits involving Dr. George Reardon and St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford could be headed to trial after talks to resolve the child sex-abuse cases broke down this week.
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WOMAN WINS $5.25 MILLION MALPRACTICE SETTLEMENT AGAINST DOCTOR AND NEW MILFORD HOSPITAL
October 9, 2009, The News Times, by Susan Tuz
A settlement has been reached in a malpractice suit brought against Dr. Ramon Mabasa and New Milford Hospital by a woman whose left leg had to be amputated as a result of complications from spinal surgery performed at the hospital in 2005.
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TALKS TO RESOLVE REARDON CHILD-SEX-ABUSE SUITS BREAK DOWN
October 8, 2009, The Hartford Courant, by Arielle Levin Becker
Talks to resolve scores of child-sex-abuse lawsuits involving Dr. George Reardon broke down this week, clearing the way for more than 100 cases against St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, where Reardon worked, to go to trial.
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FAMILY OF NORWALKER WHO DIED PLEASED THE JURY'S DECISION - 9/11 NORWALK CITIZEN
September 11, 2009, The Norwalk Citizen, by David Hennessey
Almost five years to the day after the nightmare involving Margaret Miller and her stay at the now-closed Darien Health Care Center began, the family of Miller will be able to enjoy some peace knowing that justice has been served.
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PLAINTIFF INJURED IN TRIPOD ACCIDENT GETS $1.35M
August 31, 2009, The CT Law Tribune, by Thomas B. Scheffey
While Angela Wilson was at Knickerbocker’s restaurant in Milford in December 2003, a disc jockey was setting up a lighting display for a show. An 80-pound lighting fixture on an adjustable tripod came out of its socket and landed on Wilson’s head.
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WOMEN'S DEATH COSTS NURSING HOME $1.4M
August 17, 2009, The CT Law Tribune, by Thomas B. Scheffey
A Bridgeport jury awarded the estate of an 80-year-old Norwalk child care worker nearly $1.5 million for her death following a fall at a Darien convalescent home in 2004.
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HIRSCHBECK SEEKS ACCOUNTABILITY FOR FAILED HIP REPLACEMENT
July 21, 2009, New Haven Register, by Michelle Tuccitto Sullo
Mark Hirschbeck had his dream job as a Major League Baseball umpire and reached a career high with the 2001 World Series, but he says what started as routine hip replacement surgery cost him his career and has led to years of pain.
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MISTAKEN CANCER DIAGNOSIS NETS PLANTIFF $1.5M
July 13, 2009, The CT Law Tribune, by Thomas B. Scheffey
Michael Santopietro v. Elizabeth Lach-Pasko et al.: Patients who think they have been victims of medical malpractice can face a daunting battle getting the evidence – even when the evidence is literally their own flesh and blood.
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STRATTON FAXON FILES SUIT ARISING OUT OF CONTINENTAL CRASH IN BUFFALO ON BEHALF OF THE WIDOW OF 9/11 VICTIM
2009, The Houston Chronicle, by Shannon Buggs
The sister of a woman who died in a February plane crash in Buffalo, N.Y. — and who had been a prominent spokeswoman for victims of the 9/11 terror attacks and their survivors — has filed a wrongful death suit against three airlines, including Houston-based Continental.
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IMPROPERLY REMOVED LUNG WINS JURY VERDICT AGAINST HOSPITAL PATHOLOGIST AFTER MISDIAGNOSIS OF CANCER
June 17, 2009
Just before noon at Superior Court today, the jury in Michael Santopietro vs. Elizabeth Lach-Pasko, M.D. awarded $1.56 million to the plaintiff, 67-year-old Canton resident Michael Santopietro, finding that Dr. Elizabeth Lach-Pasko, Director of the Department of Pathology at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital, was negligent in her pathology findings, misdiagnosing the plaintiff with cancer requiring immediate resection and removal of a lobe of his lung when there was actually no cancer present.
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COAL CARRIER COLLIDES WITH VESSEL: FAILURE TO FOLLOW PROPER SAFETY MEASURES AT SEA: WRONGFUL DEATH: SETTLEMENT
June 5, 2009, The CT Law Tribune, by AAJ Law Reporter
Bortolotti, 29, was working as a cook aboard a sailing vessel, the S/V Essence. Early one morning, the M/V Barkald, a bulk coal carrier weighing almost 49,500 deadweight tons, collided with the Essence.
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LAWFIRM TAKES GOOGLE TO COURT
June 3, 2009, lawyersandsettlements.com, by Brenda Craig
So what do lawyers do when they feel they have been dealt with unfairly? Well they go to court, that’s what they do. Stratton & Faxon, a personal injury firm in New Haven, Connecticut is more than a little perturbed about Google selling its hard-earned firm name to one of its competitors.
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GROWLING GOOGLE
June 1, 2009, The CT Law Tribune, by Thomas B. Scheffey
How would you feel if you typed your law firm’s name into an Internet search engine and saw a competitor’s name listed first in the results?
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GOOGLE SUED FOR ALLEGED SEARCH IRREGULARITIES
May 29, 2009, lawyersandsettlements.com, by Gordon Gibb
As the Internet continues to evolve as an integral marketing tool for business, the ability to connect with clients and potential customers searching for your firm name is pretty much a no-brainer. Or at least one would assume.
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STRATTON FAXON FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST CARDINAL EGAN AND BRIDGEPORT DIOCESE
March 30, 2009
Superiors were warned about John Castaldo, a pedophile priest in Trumbull, CT, but allow him access to children nonetheless. One victim is finally speaking about the abuse.
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AMPUTEE SUING HAVEN HEALTHCARE
March 19, 2009, New Haven Register, by Abbe Smith
Willemenia Walden was just 38 years old when both of her legs were amputated above the knee because of bed sores she developed while under the care of Haven Healthcare, according to her family.
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HAVEN HEALTH CENTER LAWSUIT
March 18, 2009
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DEMS MOVE TO END PRE-EMPTION OF MEDICAL-DEVICE LAWSUITS
March 5, 2009, Wall Street Journal
A day after the Supreme Court ruled that patients can sue drug makers in state courts, Congressional Democrats proposed making it easier to sue medical-device makers.
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BILL WOULD MAKE IT EASIER TO SUE INSURERS FOR UNFAIR CLAIM PRACTICES
February 2, 2009, Hartford Courant, by Diane Levick
Trial lawyers are lobbying for legislation that would make it easier for some Connecticut consumers to sue insurers for unfair claim practices — and potentially collect bigger damages.
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MOLESTATION LAWSUIT INVOLVING PRIEST SETTLED
January 28, 2009, Hartford Courant, by Elizabeth Hamilton and David Altimari
Also announced Tuesday was a $785,000 settlement against another Hartford Archdiocese priest, Daniel McSheffrey, who was accused of orally and anally raping a teenage boy, beginning in 1986. The abuse is alleged to have occurred for several years.
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LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST PRIEST AND ARCHBISHOP OF NEW YORK
January 27, 2009
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MULTIPLE SETTLEMENTS ANNOUNCED IN PRIEST SEX ABUSE CONTINUING SCANDAL
January 23, 2009
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EX-TRUMBULL PRIEST, DIOCESE IN ABUSE SUIT
January 23, 2009, Connecticut Post, by John Bergeson
A Trumbull man, identified in court papers only as "David Doe," is suing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport and one of its defrocked priests, John Castaldo, for allegedly molesting the plaintiff a number of times in the 1980s.
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SETTLEMENT NETS $2.5M FOR WOMAN'S ESTATE
January 19, 2009, The CT Law Tribune, by Christian Nolan
Stratton Faxon, a New Haven-based law firm, is expanding its practice into New York, where it has recently won a $2.5 million settlement for the estate of a Polish immigrant who died about two months after being hit by a sanitation truck.
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ATTORNEY JOEL FAXON TALKS ABOUT THE INCREASING NUMBER OF VICTIMS IN THE SEX ABUSE SCANDAL INVOLVING ST.FRANCIS HOSPITAL AND DR. GEORGE REARDON
December 23, 2008
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STRATTON FAXON NAMED CT LAW TRIBUNE MOST INFLUENTIAL LAWYERS OF 2008!
December 22, 2008, The CT Law Tribune, by Christian Nolan
Since forming in 2003, New Haven’s Stratton Faxon law firm has been a force in personal injury, medical malpractice and product liability.
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CHAMBER HONORS LENDER, AREA BUSINESSES
October 24, 2008, New Haven Register, by Cara Baruzzi
At a time when the local business community acknowledges growing economic uncertainty, area business leaders gathered Thursday to honor people and companies that, they say, help make Greater New Haven a place well-equipped to weather the turbulence.
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FIGHTING BACK AGAINST ERISA LIENS
September 29, 2008, by Joel T. Faxon
When a case is about to settle, my client’s first question is always: what am I going to net after fees, costs, and liens?
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BANK REVELATIONS ADD FUEL TO THE FIRE
September 8, 2008, The CT Law Tribune, by Douglas S. Malan
Like many fathers of teenage children, attorney Michael Stratton is familiar with the process of prying information from them.
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DESPITE DEATH, RAIL UNDERPASS FLOODING PERSISTS
September 2, 2008, New Haven Register, By Abbe Smith
It was just more than two years ago that a local woman drove her minivan along Morgan Lane, under a railroad bridge and into the rising floodwaters that eventually caused her death.
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RUNAWAY BRIDE: SOON-TO-BE-WED STEFFENS NEW U.S. WOMEN'S
20K CHAMPION
September 2, 2008, New Haven Register, By Dave Solomon
The United States road running community has five days to get used to the name Jill Steffens, the virtual unknown who never ran a 20K in her life and then stole the United States Women’s 20K Championship out from under an elite class of runners Monday at the Stratton Faxon New Haven Road Race.
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NEW BRITAIN'S BLAKE, 20TH, TAKES STATE'S TOP HONORS
September 2, 2008, New Haven Register, By Chris Hunn
For Eric Blake, Monday’s 31st annual 20-kilometer (12.4 miles) Stratton Faxon New Haven Road Race was just preparation.
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Westporter excels in Half Marathon
June 26, 2008, Fairfield Minuteman, by Andy Hutchison
Runners from Kenya, various cities across the United States and throughout Fairfield County laced up their running shoes and took to the streets of Fairfield for the 28th Annual Fairfield Half Marathon on Sunday morning. Hosted by the Fairfield Firefighters, proceeds from the Stratton Faxon Road Races, which include a 5K race and fun run, benefit the Connecticut Burns Care Foundation.
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Lawsuit, unions press bank over data breach
June 7, 2008, New London Day, by Lee Howard
Wayne Camarro of Rocky Hill worries that the Bank of New York Mellon data breach that came to light last month will affect his credit.
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Missing Bank Files Cause Customer Angst
June 6, 2008, The CT Law Tribune, by Christian Nolan
Here's a recipe for sleepless nights: Computer files containing your personal information and banking data are lost. The information could potentially be a gold mine for identity thieves, who could run up debts in your name, destroy your credit rating and ruin your good reputation.
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Monroe man gets 5 years in tot's death
May 30, 2008, Connecticut Post, by Daniel Tepfer
A Monroe civic leader was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison for killing a 1-year-old girl with his car in a drunken-driving crash outside a Connecticut Avenue store on July 4, 2007.
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2 banks sued in security breach
May 28, 2008, New Haven Register, by Angela Carter
In response to a security breach that occurred in February, eight individual and business account holders of People’s United Bank have filed a class-action lawsuit against People’s and one of its vendors, The Bank of New York Mellon.
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People's caught in data crossfire
May 28, 2008, Connecticut Post, by Pam Dawkins
The number of People's United Bank customers who have joined a civil suit grew over the holiday weekend, according to the lawyer who filed the suit Friday in New Haven Superior Court.
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Blumenthal Seeks Tri-State Probe Of Bank Breach
May 24, 2008, Hartford Courant, by Janice Podsada
The state has broadened its investigation into the loss of a computer backup tape that reportedly contained personal and financial information about an undetermined number of Connecticut bank depositors, including 556,000 customers of People's United Bank.
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Sex Abuse Complaint Against Reardon 40 Years Old
May 21, 2008, Hartford Courant, by Daniel P. Jones
Almost 20 years before what was believed to be the first child molestation complaint against Dr. George Reardon, a mother accused the prominent St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center doctor of abusing her son, court records show.
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Monroe woman sues spouse in eye loss
April 24, 2008, Connecticut Post, by Daniel Tepfer
A Monroe woman is suing her husband because, she says, he threw a carrot at her during an argument, poking out her left eye.
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CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST PEOPLE'S UNITED BANK
April 21, 2008
A class action complaint on behalf of all impacted People's United Bank customers has been filed today following revelations over the past several days that the bank failed to protect their customers' financial records and critical identity information.
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MOLESTATION CASES HEADED FOR MEDIATION
April 21, 2008, The CT Law Tribune, by Thomas B. Scheffey
Childhood patients of the late Dr. George Reardon, who have sued his estate and St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, are headed for mediation as of Oct. 1.
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POLICE SEEK IDENTITY OF MEN IN REARDON PHOTOS
April 12, 2008
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EIGHT MORE SUE ST.FRANCIS IN SEX ABUSE CASE
April 1, 2008, Hartford Courant, by Daniel P. Jones
Eight more people — including a man who claims Dr. George Reardon raped him repeatedly — have filed a lawsuit against St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center alleging negligence in not preventing the prominent endocrinologist from sexually abusing them.
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NO NOTICE? NO PROBLEM: KELLY v. STOP & SHOP, INC.
Stratton Faxon earned the number four spot in the fifth annual edition of
"Top 25 — Leading Cases of the Connecticut Supreme Court in 2007," compiled by Daniel J. Klau and Richard F. Wareing.
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$1.3 MILLION FOR GIRL'S MRSA INFECTION
March 3, 2008, The CT Law Tribune, by Thomas B. Scheffey
The University of Connecticut Medical Center in Farmington has agreed to pay a $1.3 million settlement to a young girl who has long-term hip problems as the result of an infection.
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TRUCK OWNER'S WIFE TAKES PLEA
March 1, 2008, Hartford Courant, by Daniel P. Jones
The wife of former dump truck owner David Wilcox pleaded no contest Friday to attempted insurance fraud related to a crash in Avon three years ago that killed
four people.
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MOLESTATION SUITS MOUNT AGAINST HOSPITAL
January 14, 2008, Associated Press
Nearly 60 people have now filed suit against St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, claiming it failed to protect them from a staff doctor who molested them when they were children.
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11 SUE ST. FRANCIS OVER MOLESTATIONS
January 10, 2008, Hartford Courant, by Daniel P. Jones
Eleven new plaintiffs have filed suits charging St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center with negligence for failing to prevent a prominent staff physician, the late Dr. George Reardon, from molesting them when they were children.
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