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2 UConn Grads Win Faxon Law Greater Danbury Road Race
March 29, 2015DANBURY—The temperatures may have only been in the mid-30s Sunday morning, but two UConn graduates did their best to heat up the half marathon course during the 11th annua...
Injured Driver Settles for $1.8 Million After Car Is 'Accordian Sandwiched'
March 05, 2015Samer Algahmi v. Service Trucking Inc. and Kenneth Hosely: A man who was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer while driving on Interstate 84 in Connecticut has settled his federal la...
Fraternities Fight Back With Lawsuits Against Colleges
March 03, 2015The lurid scenes of rowdy fraternity brothers binge-drinking, destroying property and seducing underage girls turned "Animal House" into an instant cult classic. That was 1978. ...
Show & Tell
February 01, 2015Jason Gamsby, JD ’13, a trial lawyer with the Faxon Law Group in New Haven, recently had a client who entered the hospital for routine surgery and left with paralysis, kid...
From the Community: Young Lawyers Ring-in New Year with Charitable Donation
January 19, 2015The Connecticut Bar Association's Young Lawyers Section (CBA-YLS) presented contributions of over $1,000 to both the Connecticut Food Bank and My Sisters' Place, an organization...
Sexual assault allegations made against former CT nursing assistant
December 27, 2014BRIDGEPORT, CT (WFSB) - A man was tasked with helping those who were sick, but one patient at a Connecticut hospital said a nursing assistant i...
New Haven man sues St. Vincent’s hospital, claiming he was sexually abused
December 25, 2014A New Haven man is suing St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport, claiming he was sexually abused by a nursing assistant while he was hospitalized there.The...
Suit claims 4th victim of sex abuse at Saint Vincent's
December 19, 2014B...
Metro-North Settles with Several Train Crash Victims
September 25, 2014A Metro-North train crash in Bridgeport last year left more than 70 passengers injured and spawned dozens of lawsuits. A handful of those claims recently settled, with more out-...
Four Settle In Metro North Derailment And Collision
September 15, 2014HARTFORD—Four of 28 people who sued the Metro-North Railroad in federal court after being injured in a train crash in Connecticut last year have settled with the commuter ...
Judge: West Haven cops neglected responsibilitie in murder-suicide case
September 09, 2014WEST HAVEN— A federal judge has ruled that a West Haven police officer and dispatcher “neglected their responsibilities” to protect the late Shengyl Rasim &mda...
Ethiopian Wegi wins Stratton Faxon Half Marathon in first U.S. race
June 22, 2014FAIRFIELD—For centuries now, America as the "land of the free" has held more meaning to foreigners as the land of opportunity. For 20-year-old Habtamu Arga Wegi, of Ethiop...
Road Racing Notebook: Southport runner running for friend's child
June 08, 2014More than 4,000 runners are expected to participate in the 34...
Danbury man charged in 2013 fatal crash
June 04, 2014DANBURY—Police charged a 21-year-old Danbury man with negligent homicide and reckless driving Tuesday as the result of an investigation into a two-vehicle accident nearly ...
Stratton Faxon New Haven Road Race donates $3,000 to the Register Fresh Air Fund
May 24, 2014NEW HAVEN—For Stratton Faxon New Haven Road Race Director John Bysiewicz, there is a lot to be said about giving back to the community. This is important, Bysiewic...
Victim: Connecticut is responsible for fatal wreck
April 30, 2014HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Nine years after being severely wounded in the horrific Avon Mountain wreck, Michael Cummings ...
Nine years later, crash victims still seek lawsuit
April 30, 2014HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) – The fiery 20-vehicle pile-up that would claim the lives of five people and injure 23 occurred nine years ago July when a truck with faulty brakes ...
Hixson strong from start to finish in winning Danbury half marathon
April 06, 2014DANBURY -- Mark Hixson made the right turn onto Memorial Drive in full stride and had no reason to worry about...
Stew Leonard settles multi-million lawsuit
April 04, 2014BRIDGEPORT -- Westport dairy store magnate Stew Leonard has agreed to settle a multimillion-dollar lawsuit brought by the wife of a resort owner who died when he was swept off L...
Sig Ep national to aid Yale chapter
January 17, 2014Four days after details of a lawsuit against 86 current and former members of Yale’s Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity emerged, the national fraternity appears to hav...
New Yale tailgating lawsuits name fraternity members (feat. video)
January 14, 2014New Haven—A pair of new lawsuits have been filed in the 2011 Yale Bowl tailgating accident that killed a Massachusetts woman and injured two others. The new cases ...
86 Sig Ep members sued over 2011 tailgate
January 14, 2014Eighty-six current and former members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity at Yale are the targets of two new lawsuits over a fatal collision at the 2011 Harvard-Yale tailgate th...
West Haven man awarded $12.3 million jury verdict against East Haven police
December 11, 2013NEW HAVEN—A jury awarded a West Haven man $12.3 million Wednesday after he was hit by a van driven by a man who had been detained earlier by East Haven police, his attorne...
Jury Awards $12.3 Million Verdict Against Town Of East Haven
December 11, 2013NEW HAVEN—The town of East Haven, plagued by improprieties within the police department and still stinging from...
Connecticut Law Tribune: Report: Adam Lanza Acted Alone, But Had No Apparent Motive
November 25, 2013State officials have released a long-awaited report on last December's Newtown Elementary School shooting, which concludes that the 20-year-old Adam Lanza acted alone when he fa...
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