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Patient sues YNHH after botched surgery
March 28, 2016The University faces a lawsuit seeking over $15,000 in damages after Milford resident Deborah Craven filed a legal complaint on March 14 in the Connecticut Superior Court ...
When a surgeon should just say 'I'm sorry'
March 24, 2016(CNN)—Last May, surgeons at Yale New Haven Hospital removed the wron...
Patient accuses Yale doctors of cover-up, removing wrong body part
March 23, 2016(CNN)—...
Lawsuit against Yale-New Haven claims surgeon removed wrong rib, then lied
March 18, 2016NEW HAVEN—A Milford woman is suing two ...
Woman Sues Hospital After Doctors Remove Wrong Rib: Lawsuit
March 18, 2016A 60-year-old Milford woman has filed a lawsuit against Yale-New Haven Hospital, Yale University and two physicians, claiming she was forced to go through two surgeries in one d...
Milford woman files suit against Yale surgeon-in-training after he removed the wrong body part
March 17, 2016NEW HAVEN — A Milford woman has filed a lawsuit against Yale-New Haven Medical Center, Yale University School of Medicine, and two doctors after a surgeon-in-training oper...
Speaker urges Cheshire High School students to combat distracted driving
February 23, 2016CHESHIRE—A Pennsy...
Church pays for abuse
February 11, 2016The Archdiocese of Hartford has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle sexual abuse allegations against a Roman Catholic priest who served at parishes in the Naugatuck Valley....
Archdiocese settles sex abuse lawsuit
February 10, 2016NEW HAVEN — The Archdiocese of Hartford has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a sex abuse allegation against a New Haven priest, the lawyers for the plaintiff announced Wed...
Hartford Archdiocese To Pay Former Altar Boy $500,000 To Settle Priest Abuse Case, Law Firm Says
February 10, 2016The Hartford Archdiocese has agreed to pay a former altar boy at a New...
YLS Makes Contribution to New Haven Homeless Shelter
January 22, 2016The Young Lawyers Section recently presented a $2,500 contribution to Life Haven, an organization offering emergency shelter for homeless pregnant...
Brattleboro Retreat ordered to release documents for lawsuit
January 14, 2016BRATTLEBORO — A federal judge has ordered the Brattleboro Retreat to release documents related to attempted and successful suicides of juveniles who were receiving ...
Metro-North accidents cost $38M and climbing
October 21, 2015The legal tab for two Metro-North derailments, including one of the deadliest crashes in the commuter railroad’s 33-year history, stands at more than...
Updated: UConn Hockey Hazing Lawsuit Part of National Trend
September 18, 2015When a former University of Connecticut women's hockey player sued her former coach earlier this month, she became one of a growing number of college athletes to bring claims ov...
Former UConn Profs Collect $1 Million for Building Fire Injuries
September 16, 2015Two former University of Connecticut professors have received $1 million in a settlement for injuries sustained in an apartment building fire after they claimed the building's o...
Attorney: Man shot by New London police to get $2 million settlement
September 09, 2015New London — The man shot multiple times by a New London police officer after stealing and crashing an ice truck in 2011 has secured a $2 million settlement with the city&...
Thousands pack Green for Faxon Law New Haven Road Race
September 07, 2015NEW HAVEN >> Temple Street was packed with traffic again Monday, but instead of cars going bumper-to-bumper, it was great runners from across Greater New Haven and around ...
SigEp called to trial in tailgate lawsuit
August 17, 2015A New Haven superior court judge has ordered the national Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity to proceed to trial as a defendant in a lawsuit stemming from the 2011 Harvard-Yale tailga...
Frat to be tried in fatal 2011 Yale Bowl crash, judge rules
August 17, 2015The national fraternity Sigma Phi Epsilon will be put on trial before a jury in the case of a crash that killed a woman and injured two others at the 2011 Yale-Harvard football ...
Faxon Law Group Settles Largest Ever Case Against Metro North in Connecticut
July 19, 2015The state this week paid $3.2 million to a woman injured in a 2013 train crash in Bridgeport as part of the settlement in a federal lawsuit filed against the Metro-North Commute...
Negligence suit costs New Milford $300K
July 15, 2015NEW MILFORD — The town of New Milford has reached a $300,000 settlement with Catherine Fergus in the negligence suit stemming from her November 2009 stabbing by her estran...
With Dozens of Crash-Related Lawsuits Pending, Metro-North Seeks Settlements
May 28, 2015Train crash images are fresh in everyone's mind from the recent Amtrak tragedy in Philadelphia. But Connecticut has its own recent history with rail disasters, and the state, on...
More Than 30 Lawsuits Filed Against Metro-North In Crash
May 06, 2015As the two-year anniversary of the Metro-North train derailment in Bridgeport approaches – and with it the deadline for filing a personal injury lawsuit – more claim...
$3M settlement in suit over Connecticut killing
April 21, 2015...
Estate of victim in West Haven murder-suicide settles suit for $3M
April 21, 2015HARTFORD—A Connecticut city where police officers and dispatchers were accused of negligence and ethnic discrimination in the response to what became a murder-suicide in 2...
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