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Title	Practice Areas	Date
Study: Hospital deaths may spike in July For years, many in and around the health care industry have been familiar with the so-called "July effect" -- the idea that medical errors spike in July...	Medical Malpractice	07/17/2010
Can Same-Sex Partner Claim Loss Of Consortium? Margaret Mueller battled through 24 cycles of chemotherapy over a 3 ½ year span, with little improvement to her condition. Growing desperate, she sought out...	Medical Malpractice	07/05/2010
$2.45M awarded for malpractice in same case where woman claimed damages to gay relationship A jury awarded $2.45 million Friday in a malpractice case to the estate of a Connecticut woman who had also that claimed botched cancer treatments damaged...	Medical Malpractice	07/02/2010
Lawyer pushes for hospital to release records in drug case An attorney representing eight women in a class-action lawsuit against Greenwich Hospital for its handling of a drug-addicted surgeon demanded an explanation...	Medical Malpractice	03/10/2010
Greenwich Hospital hit with another lawsuit over drug-addicted surgeon A new lawsuit filed against Greenwich Hospital over its handling of a drug-addicted surgeon is adding fuel to the fire surrounding the case, bringing the...	Medical Malpractice	02/25/2010
Judge rules malpractice suit against Danbury Hospital can go to trial A defense bid based on statutes of limitation to short-circuit a medical malpractice lawsuit against Danbury Hospital and one of its physicians has been...	Medical Malpractice	02/25/2010
Letter to the editor In a recent opinion piece in the Post, Dr. Robert Levine, of Norwalk, attacks our malpractice system, using bogus statistics and faulty logic. For example...	Medical Malpractice	10/01/2009
Michael Koskoff comments on medical malpractice in TV interview In a return visit, Michael Koskoff discussed medical malpractice during a segment of "Connecticut Newsmakers," the WVIT (NBC-Hartford) program. He highlights...	Medical Malpractice	09/29/2009
Michael Koskoff interviewed about medical malpractice Interview of Michael Koskoff on "Connecticut Newsmakers," the WVIT (NBC-Hartford) program on major issues of the day. He discusses medical malpractice.	Medical Malpractice	08/19/2009
'Defensive Medicine' A Myth – It's Only Greed With medical costs skyrocketing, doctors have come under close scrutiny for performing unnecessary surgery, tests and other procedures. Although ordering...	Medical Malpractice	07/12/2009
Physician's Family Challenges Malpractice Laws A doctor's widow is hoping to change Connecticut's laws to allow patients to sue for alleged malpractice discovered years after the fact. Attorneys for the...	Medical Malpractice	12/08/2008
The Lingering Impact of a Doctor's Death As an accomplished physician, Stanley Saperstein was acutely aware of the importance of getting an early diagnosis. The lack of one in 1999 sent him to an...	Medical Malpractice	11/24/2008
Wife of former physician sues Danbury Hospital The widow of a doctor who worked at Danbury Hospital for more than three decades is suing the hospital and one of its physicians, saying a pre-cancerous...	Medical Malpractice	11/13/2008
Doctor's widow sues over diagnosis The widow of a doctor from Southbury has sued the hospital where he practiced, claiming its top pathologist misdiagnosed his fatal throat cancer in 1999...	Medical Malpractice	11/13/2008
Sean McElligott interviewed for "The Early Show" The CBS morning program, "The Early Show," featured a lawsuit against Greenwich Hospital. Atty. Sean McElligott represents women asking the court to certify...	Medical Malpractice, Class Actions	10/27/2008
Addicted Doctor Prompts Potential Class Action Greenwich Hospital boasted on its web site that it had assembled the “newest technology and a team of breast cancer specialists into one comprehensive Breast...	Medical Malpractice, Class Actions	10/13/2008
8 women sue Greenwich Hospital over plastic surgeon After a 2006 surgery by Dr. Ian Rubins, the Greenwich plastic surgeon who died of a heroin overdose in January, Stamford resident Robin Lyons' breast swelled...	Medical Malpractice, Class Actions	10/09/2008
Verdict Information Hard To Nail Down Law has been called the best-documented of all the professions. Before and after a law is made, lagoons of ink are often spilled in discussing, evaluating...	Medical Malpractice	02/25/2008
Wrongful Death Case Full Of Lessons A Judge has affirmed a jury's decision in the wrongful death of a truck driver. The family of the late Gary Carlson deserves more than $20 million as a...	Medical Malpractice	01/28/2008
Loss Of Life's Enjoyment Worth $3.5M John P. Ackley, Administrator v. St. Vincent's Medical Center Gregory Ackley was a mentally challenged, unmarried man who lived with his father and traveled...	Medical Malpractice	11/26/2007
No Haven For The Elderly Nursing home abuse and nursing home lawsuits reported in The Hartford Courant series; Atty. Josh Koskoff is quoted.	Medical Malpractice	11/18/2007
Malpractice to cost St. Vincent's $3.5m Greg Ackley never held a full-time job, but he loved to tell people he finished first in his graduating class. That was by virtue of the spelling of his last...	Medical Malpractice	11/14/2007
Jury: St. Vincent's Hospital should pay for preventable death A Bridgeport Superior Court jury today awarded $3.5 million to the estate of a man who died in the emergency room of St. Vincent’s Medical Center, saying his...	Medical Malpractice	11/13/2007
Is it too much to ask that your hospital be clean? For years hospital and nursing home administrators have said there was little they could do to keep their facilities clean and that hospital-acquired...	Medical Malpractice	10/31/2007
Hospitals: Come Clean A patient who enters a hospital for a routine procedure should not have to face risks that may be as high as those for soldiers in a war zone, but that is...	Medical Malpractice	10/24/2007

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