Case Stats

  • This gives referring lawyers and the outside world the exact same information we use in-house for quality control. Intakes need to be accepted / declined and cases need to be resolved! Justice delayed is justice denied.
  • Intakes Under Review 45 
  • Referred Cases from other lawyers state and nationwide 94%
  • Median Time First Contact to Decline 14 days (most cases are reviewed w/ an indication of merit within 72 hours)
  • Median Time First Contact to Accepted/Filed Cases 9 weeks
  • Median Time Case Filing to Resolution 1.8 years
  • Mall Employee Slams Into Young Man

    Qui v. Colombo, et al, (JD of Fairfield – filed Oct. 16, 2013) A young man suffered a traumatic brain injury while skateboarding in a remote area in the Danbury Fair Mall parking lot. He was struck by a mall employee who drove directly into him. We filed a claim against the driver, Danbury mall and the LLC that currently owns and operates the mall.

  • No Protections for Senior Residents in Danbury

    Ahearn v. Danbury Housing Authority (J.D. of Danbury – filed October 28, 2013) The housing authority repeatedly failed to protect its senior citizen residents at West Wooster from strangers entering the complex. Without proper door locks, surveillance, and security, the residents were badly exposed. The plaintiff, a lively but elderly woman, was severely beaten by an armed man who easily entered the complex. She suffered devastating fractures to her hip and sacrum,  and head. As a result of this incident, Ahearn lost her independence and requires extensive rehabilitative care and has incurred costly medical expenses.  

  • Tainted Mushrooms Almost Kill a Man

    Montaudy v. Stop & Shop, (JD of New Haven – filed Oct. 18, 2013) A Milford man became extremely sick after consuming morel mushrooms purchased at his local Stop & Shop. The plaintiff prepared a sauce with the mushrooms and soon after fell violently ill and lapsed into a coma before waking up in the hospital days later with kidney failure and damage to his internal organs. The mushrooms were found to be contaminated with a bacterium that causes  serious injury and even death when consumed.  The plaintiff is left with severely compromised kidneys and other residual impacts.

  • Degrease the Lot or Pay for the Harm

    Castros v. Vukson, (JD of Stamford – filed October 10, 2013) The plaintiff has gone through extensive back and neck surgeries since a very damaging fall in a parking lot owned by the defendant. The parking area where this occurred had a combination of slick surface and large cracks that made it particularly dangerous for people carrying heavy items. The surface was slick because of years of accumulated oil and grease. The lot is right outside an auto parts store and standard practice is to periodically lay down a degreaser. This was never done.  While carrying supplies from the store, MORE

  • Crash into Snow Plow Leaves Passenger Badly Injured

    Orbon v. Amrani, (JD of New Haven – filed Aug. 9, 2013) The plaintiff was badly injured during a snow storm when the driver of the car he was in ran headlong into a public works truck.  He had fractures that required surgery, and fixation devices. He is left with permanent disabilities.

  • Young Woman Suffers Locked In Syndrome After Being Repeatedly Ignored By Hospital Staff

    Bedell v. Waterbury Hospital, et al (Filed October 3, 2013)(Waterbury Superior Court): A young woman reported to the defendant hospital on three different occasions over a 2 day period. Each time she complained of severe headache pain and stroke like symptoms. Despite having a family history of pulmonary embolisms and on birth control pills, the hospital reassured her and her family that she was fine. She ultimately suffered an embolic stroke and is unable to move any part of her body. She now lives in a nursing home and is cared for by her family. She can move only her eyes MORE

  • Passengers Injured When Metro North Train Derails

    Several Plaintiffs v. Metro North (Filed May-September 2013)(Federal Court CT): The NTSB is currently investigating this crash. Our early investigation shows that the track was loose in the vicinity of the Bridgeport station. In fact, we have identified two witnesses who experienced a near derailment at same section of track 1 week before. This has not been disclosed by Metro North. The crash cause several injuries. We represent six of the plaintiffs so injured. Related articles In rough year, NYC-area rail has high on-time rate Metro-North Promises More New Haven Line Trains, a Credit Program, and an Investigation Electrical Outage MORE

  • Dialysis Patient Dies When Staff Fails to Monitor Him

    Massicote, as Administrator of Massaro v. Total Renal Care   (Filed in Waterbury, SF assumed case in May 2013) This is the second case Stratton Faxon is handling against this dialysis center. The staff here completely failed to monitor the patient’s condition, and were unaware of basic standard of care for  hemodialysis and complication management. The plaintiff’s decedent died as a result. Related articles Dialysis Center Fails to Monitor Blood Thinner Causing Death

  • Doctor Performs Unnecessary Radical Surgery Before Obtaining Negative Biopsy

    Wendell Gonzalez v.Zarif   (Filed in Waterbury, SF assumed in 2013) During a colonoscopy,  a mass was found and surgery was immediately recommended. The doctor told the patient that it was cancer and without getting the biopsy results performed surgery. A later biopsy on a tissue sample from  the mass showed that it was not cancerous and that, in fact, it was colitis which did not warrant surgery. The surgery caused major intestinal damage. He suffered leakage of his intestinal contents into his pelvic cavity which led to intra-abdominal abscesses, Sepsis, Ileostomy, Colon resection, Wound infection and tissue necrosis, Renal failure, Dehydration, MORE

  • Doctor Cuts Hypogastric Artery During Routine Procedure

    Hunt v. Specialists in Women’s Healthcare (Filed in Waterbury, SF assumed case in 2013) The plaintiff’s doctor performed a D & C with Hysteroscopy. This procedure not only caused a perforation of her uterus but also her hypogastric artery. She nearly bled to death, and required a full hysterectomy.

How to Use Case Builder

Case Builder contains two helpful categories: cases we are working on now and our past results. Case Builder is a novel concept. Our web designer said we should have this information fixed in a web page. We disagreed—thinking that just like our practice is always changing the case builder should be an ever-changing description of where we are right now—not last month or a year ago.

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