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

archive for May, 2018


  • Improperly Maintained Plane Leads to Deadly Crash

    James Carter, et. al. v. Interstate Aviation, Inc, et. al. (Hartford Superior Court—filed April 30, 2018) James Carter is the father of the decedent, Dana Parenteau, who was killed on May 3, 2016, along with one other passenger and the pilot, on an aircraft en route from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to Plainville, CT. While cruising at an elevation of 7,000 feet, the pressure air pump, which powered the flight instruments necessary to navigate the single-engine plane, suddenly failed causing the aircraft to lose control. The plane broke into pieces mid-air, resulting in the severe pain, suffering, and untimely death to MORE

  • Ironworker Severely Brain Damaged Due To Poorly Maintained Job Site

    Levesque v. C.H. Nickerson & Co., Inc. (Bridgeport Superior Court – filed May 11, 2018)  On August 26, 2016, ironworker James Levesque, received severe and disabling brain damage while installing rebar at a water treatment facility in Farmington, CT.   Suddenly, and without warning, a carelessly untethered and/or unfastened abandoned steel bracket, mis-applied by defendant Nickerson Construction, associated with the project’s concrete forming system fell from high above striking Levesque in the head.  Despite wearing all protective gear and a hard hat, he sustained blunt traumatic injuries to his head and body.  Nearly two years after the completely preventable misconduct Levesque MORE

  • Patient was told defective hip product sold to market would withstand time; then it shattered

    Boehringer, et. al. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., et. al. (Waterbury Superior Court—filed April 30, 2018)  On July 20, 2010, our client received a bilateral hip replacement with products designed, manufactured, and sold by Smith & Nephew, Inc., and implanted by John M. Keggi of Orthopaedics New England, P.C.  Less than a year later, Dr. Keggi informed the plaintiff that Smith & Nephew instituted a recall of the hip liners used during surgery due to the product’s failure to conform to manufacturing specifications. Several batches of the liners had been subjected to no or very poor quality control by the MORE

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.

Current Cases

Past Results

National Board of Trial Advocacy

US News Best Law Firms 2017

Super Lawyers Top 50 New England Lawyers

Super Lawyers Top 10 Connecticut Lawyers

Martin Hubbell Peer Review Rated

CLTA Board of Govenors