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$25 Million Verdict Awarded In State Trooper Crash Case
March 13, 2013A Bridgeport Superior Court jury has delivered a $25 million verdict against the State of Connecticut arising out of an accident involving a state trooper whose cruiser crashed ...
Man gets $16.2M in speeding trooper case
March 12, 2013A jury has awarded $16.2 million against state in favor of a local restaurant owner whose right leg was ripped off by a speeding State Police cruiser. The verdict was re...
Jury Awards $16.2 Million To Man Struck By State Police Cruiser
March 12, 2013A jury Tuesday awarded $16.2 million to a Bridgeport man whose right leg was severed after he wa...
Crash victim seeks $10 million-plus from state
February 27, 2013A local restaurant owner, whose right leg was sheared off by a speeding state police car, is claiming more than $10 million in damages against the state. Melvin Gordils,...
Stew Leonard Heading to Court on Boating Death
February 18, 2013Accused in a lawsuit of causing a death at sea, dairy store owner Stew Leonard will have to defend himself on his native soil. Despite Leonard's claim that the death of ...
NRA-branded video game draws outrage amid Newtown gun debate
January 16, 2013As President Obama prepared to announce his gun control proposals Wednesday, an NRA-branded video game was sparking outrage across the country. “NRA: Practice...
NRA draws heat over its new shooting game
January 15, 2013A month after the deadly school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, the National Rifle Association is taking heat again -- this time for releasing a mobile video...
Newtown Police Commissioners Ask For Changes In Workers' Compensation Law
January 08, 2013The board of police commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to ask the legislature to expand Connecticut's workers' compensation law to provide benefits for those who might have...
After Newtown Shootings, Push On To Expand Workers' Compensation For First-Responders
December 21, 2012In light of the Newtown school massacre, a state lawmaker said Friday that he will propose legislation to expand the circumstances in which emergency responders can receive work...
Joel Faxon Has Been Part Of The Gun Debate In His Hometown
December 21, 2012Attorney Joel T. Faxon lives in Newtown and serves on its five-member police commission. On the morning of Dec. 14, he was taking one of his three children to middle s...
Son of former Legionaries leader arrested in Mexico for extortion
October 23, 2012Mexican police arrested Jose Raúl Gonzalez Lara, a biological son of the late Legion of Christ founder Fr. Marcial Maciel, on Monday on charges of attempted extortion aga...
Men's national champion sets USA Championship record at 35th Stratton Faxon New Haven Road Race
September 03, 2012NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Matt Tegenkamp (Portland, Ore.) and Renee Metivier Baillie (Bend, Ore.) won the respective men's and women's titles at the USA 20K Champions...
Labor Day Race
August 26, 2012The Stratton Faxon New Haven Road Race celebrates its 35th anniversary this Labor Day on Sept. 3. Race directors expect a record crowd of 7,000 participants competing in the 20K...
Wallingford Man Awarded $2.7M in Lawsuit Against State
July 30, 2012A Wallingford resident was awarded $2.7 million in damages Monday for a 2008 highway accident that his lawyers say left him permanently disabled, though lawyers for the other si...
Jury Awards $6.72 Million Verdict in 2008 Orange Crash That Killed New Haven Man
July 30, 2012Jurors awarded a $6.72 million verdict Monday in a multi-crash accident in Orange in 2008, where the state was found to be partially at fault, one driver was severely injured an...
DOT, Truck Driver Found Liable For 2008 Crash That Killed One
July 30, 2012A Superior Court jury in New Haven on Monday awarded $2.72 million to a man for injuries he suffered in a crash on I-95 in ...
Bionic Woman Walks Into the Future
July 12, 2012After a severe spinal cord injury, Sarah Anderson can’t use her legs. But that didn’t stop her Wednesday night from walking over and accepting a $100,000 check that ...
Big Field Takes on Challenging Fairfield Half
June 24, 2012Tesfaye Girma and Ketema Niguesse ran neck and neck for 13 miles. That's routine for them. The two Ethiopians train together, and they shared strides, cups of water and the...
Chowder Pot Defendant Pleads Guilty
June 14, 2012John Mayor, 45, of New Haven, pled guilty on Tuesday in the stabbing of 43-year-old Monte Freire of Nashua, New Hampshire. Mayor stabbed Frerie in the neck during an argume...
Joel Faxon Secures Top Settlement in CT
June 11, 2012$23,350,000 was awarded in the largest construction-related, pre-trial personal injury settlement in Connecticut history. Click on image for case details. ...
Stratton Faxon Settlement in Drunk Driving Case Among the Top 10 in the State
June 04, 2012As reported in the Connecticut Law Tribune's 2011 Personal Injury Yearbook, the estate of a young man who was struck and killed by a drunken driver agreed to a $1,500,0...
2011 Personal Injury Yearbook: $14 Million Jury Verdict Among Top 10 in the State
May 20, 2012Walter Hopkins, 19, was a passenger in his own car when it was involved in a minor collision with a vehicle driven by Matthew Vincent, a volunteer firefighter in Clinton. Vincen...
Woman Injured In Yale-Harvard Tailgating Accident Sues
April 11, 2012A woman who was struck by a U-Haul truck that also killed a friend nearby in a tailgating area at the Harvard-Yale football game in November is suing the driver and U-Haul for m...
New London Police Officer Made 'Poor Decision' In Shooting
April 02, 2012A "poor decision" to shoot an unarmed suspect in a truck theft multiple times in August led to the March 22 firing of city police Officer Thomas Northup, according to an interna...
Flagpole Radio Cafe Raising Money to Support Challenge Grant
March 19, 2012As the Newtown Cultural Arts Commission announced this week, The Flagpole Radio Café has been presented with a $5,000 challenge grant from the law firm of Stratton Faxon,...
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