HELPING CHILDREN OF CONNECTICUT
READ, ONE BOOK AT A TIME
November 19, 2004 Newtown Bee
New Haven- New Haven law firm Stratton
Faxon donated more than 200 books
to New Haven area high schools on
November 10.
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$4.7M VERDICT SHOWS LIMITS OF FIREFIGHTERS
STATUS AS HEROES
$750,000 OFFERED AN HOUR BEFORE THE
JURY CAME BACK
October 18, 2004 by Thomas B. Scheffey
Connecticut Law Tribune Staff Writer
"I have lost a lot of money
because I was greedy," admits
plaintiffs' lawyer Michael A. Stratton,
of New Haven's Stratton Faxon. "I've
learned over time that, when a good,
reasonable offer gets put on the
table, you take it."
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COSTA RICANS SEEK REDRESS IN CONNECTICUT
September 13, 2004 by Thomas B. Scheffey
Connecticut Law Tribune Staff Writer
The New Haven firm of Stratton Faxon
filed a mass tort action late last
month against Fairfield-based General
Electric Co. on behalf of 100 Costa
Rican citizens allegedly killed or
maimed by a defectively calibrated
radiation treatment machine in 1996.
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2 GAS BLAST SURVIVORS SUING EACH
OTHER
August 13, 2004 by Andy Bromage New
Haven Register Staff
WEST HAVEN - Days after being sued
by the widow of an elderly man who
was killed in a 2002 natural gas
explosion, the spouse of another
victim shot back this week with his
own wrongful-death lawsuit.
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COURT RULES HIV A JOB HAZARD IN PRISONS
May 4, 2004 by Natalie Missakian
New Haven Register Staff
HARTFORD - The state Supreme Court
ruled Monday that HIV is an occupational
hazard for some state prison guards,
making them eligible to file worker's
compensation claims if they contract
the disease on the job.
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COURT RULES IN PRISON HIV CASE
May 4, 2004 by Lynne Tuohy Hartford
Courant Staff Writer
The state Supreme Court Monday ruled
that human immunodeficiency virus
- HIV - is an occupational disease
for prison guards who serve on the
department's emergency response unit,
but did not extend that benefit to
line officers who routinely break
up fights and risk exposure to the
virus through contact with infected
inmates.
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