$4 million settlement reached in suit over chimp attack 
Published: November 30, 2012
Tags: animal attack, blindness, Connecticut
A settlement agreement calls for a woman disfigured in a chimpanzee attack to receive about $4 million from the estate of the animal’s now-dead owner.
Lacrosse league and ex-coach settle gender lawsuit
Published: October 18, 2012
Tags: Connecticut, gender discrimination, retaliation, youth sports
A former coach who accused a youth lacrosse league of discriminating against girls by giving boys more resources has settled her lawsuit.
Jury awards $6.72 million in crash that killed man
Published: July 31, 2012
Tags: car crash, Connecticut, wrongful death
Jurors have awarded a $6.72 million verdict in a multi-crash accident in Orange, Conn. in 2008, where the state was found to be partially at fault, one driver was severely injured and a young father from the city was killed.
Pastor awarded $2.5 million for brain injury sustained in crash
Published: June 28, 2012
Tags: brain injury, car crash, Connecticut
The former pastor of the Westerly-Pawcatuck, Conn. Congregational Church, who suffered a traumatic brain injury when her car was rear- ended by a tractor-trailer in 2008, was awarded $2.5 million in damages following an eight-day trial in U.S. District Court in Bridgeport.
Spycams lead to $2 million verdict
Published: June 28, 2012
Tags: Connecticut, invasion of privacy
A Hartford, Conn. jury has awarded a Bloomfield medical assistant $2 million for invasion of privacy after her ex-boyfriend, a surgeon, secretly installed multiple bedroom and bathroom cameras, computer trackers and other bugs in the house they once shared. The technology enabled him to watch her on a four-part screen from three-quarters of a mile away.
$2.5 million settlement reached over cruiser crash that killed two teens
Published: February 16, 2012
Tags: automobile accident, Connecticut, police, wrongful death
The city of Milford, Conn. has agreed to pay $2.5 million to the estate of one of the two Orange teens killed in a 2009 crash involving former city police officer Jason Anderson, who was travelling 94 mph at the point of impact.
Church found negligent in sexual abuse case
Published: February 13, 2012
Tags: child sex abuse, clergy sex abuse, Connecticut
A jury has ordered the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford, Conn. to pay $1 million in damages to a former altar boy who was sexually abused by a priest decades ago.
Men settle dispute over $1 million prize
Published: February 13, 2012
Tags: Connecticut, lottery
Two Connecticut men have settled a three-year legal fight over a $1 million Powerball jackpot.
Woman reaches $5.25 million settlement with hospital and doctor
Published: July 8, 2011
Tags: amputation, Connecticut, hospital, medical malpractice, medical negligence
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.
Man wins nearly $1 million for botched eye surgery
Published: June 28, 2011
Tags: Connecticut, eye, medical malpractice
Attorneys for a Connecticut man say he has won a $925,000 settlement with the Veteran’s Administration after he was blinded in one eye during a routine outpatient cataract operation.
