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Elderly woman beaten sues Danbury housing agency
November 07, 2013DANBURY, Conn. (WTNH) -- An elderly Danbury woman who was beaten and robbed inside her home is now suing the Danbury Housing Authority.She says they failed to provid...
Wooster Manor home-invasion victim sues housing authority
November 06, 2013DANBURY -- The 85-year-old woman who was brutally beaten in a home-invasion robbery in September is suing the city's Housing Authority for failing to provide adequate security a...
Federal Probe Investigates Metro-North Crashes
November 06, 2013The National Transportation Safety Board began investigative hearings Wednesday morning into two Metro-North railroad accidents.On Friday May 17, during the height o...
New Milford woman's suit against town cleared for jury trial
October 29, 2013NEW MILFORD -- A trial date will be set in coming weeks for stabbing victim Catherine Fergus' lawsuit against the town of New Milford. State Superior Court Judge John W....
State pays $9.8 mil to man hit by state police car
October 09, 2013The state agreed Wednesday to pay $9.8 million to a Bridgeport restaurant owner whose right leg was ripped off by a speeding State Police car three years ago. The settle...
Tegenkamp wins Stratton Faxon New Haven Road Race, defends 20K title; Peyton takes women’s event
September 02, 2013NEW HAVEN—Matt Tegenkamp called Monday morning’s racing conditions “suicide.” Meghan Peyton declared the near-100 percent humidity OK for running...
Credit union loses case over disability benefits
August 21, 2013WALLINGFORD—A state court awarded Middletown resident Naomi Odell just over $200,000 after it ruled that the Wallingford Municipal Federal Credit Union wr...
Judge awards Middletown woman $200,000 in Wallingford credit union suit
August 13, 2013WALLINGFORD—A New Haven Superior Court judge has awarded a Middletown woman more than $200,000 in damages and attorney fees in a civil suit against The Wallingford Municip...
Lawsuits claim Metro-North warned that crossing unsafe
August 12, 2013Attorneys representing victims and survivors of a fatal Dec. 30 car-train crash at an unprotected crossing in Redding have sued Metro-North Railroad, claiming it had known for y...
Joel Faxon Connects Stratton Faxon and his Alma Mater Vermont Law School
August 01, 2013An interview with Stratton Faxon founding partner and VLS alumnus, Joel T. Faxon, on the value of giving back and why the firm's 10% Philosophy continues to make a difference in...
Where can Asiana crash victims file lawsuits?
July 10, 2013South Korean airline. American airport. Passengers from multiple countries, including the United States and China. Saturday's crash of an Asiana Airlines jetliner in San Francis...
Asiana Seen Saving Millions With Tactic to Bar U.S. Suits
July 08, 2013Asiana Airlines Inc. could avoid hundreds of millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements by employing a tactic under international law to bar Chinese and South Korean passen...
Connecticut on the hook for Metro-North derailment costs
July 02, 2013Washington -– While there’s no official assessment of blame for May’s Metro-North commuter train derailment in Bridgeport, one thing is ...
Red Sox Fan Awarded $4.3 Million
June 27, 2013NEW HAVEN, Conn—A Boston Red Sox fan who was harassed and stabbed through the neck by a New York Yankees fan at a restaurant in 2010 has been awarded $4.3 million by a jur...
Finishing kick carries Chirchir to half marathon title in Fairfield
June 23, 2013Although he was neck-and-neck with a fellow Kenyan, when Eric Chirchir hit the 10-mile post of Sunday's Stratton Faxon Fairfield Half Mara...
BRANFORD ROAD RACE: Course brings back memories for Michael Stratton
June 15, 2013For Michael Stratton and his family, who are participating in the 33rd annual Branford Road Race today, running is part of the family bonding experience.“For a...
NTSB: Track trouble noticed before Metro-North derailment did $18 million in damage
June 08, 2013Washington—An inspection of the track before the May 17 derailment and collision of two Metr...
NTSB: Inspection Found Problem With Track Two Days Before Metro-North Train Derailment, Crash
June 05, 2013BRIDGEPORT—An inspection two days before a train derailed on Metro-North's New...
Critically injured woman sues Metro-North
May 24, 2013A woman who was critically injured in the crash and derailment of a Metro-North train in Bridgeport on May 17 has filed suit against the r...
First Lawsuit Filed in Metro-North Crash
May 24, 2013Washington—On the same day that federal investigators said that a portion of track involved in last we...
Victim files lawsuit after train derailment (feat. video)
May 24, 2013BRIDGEPORT, CT (WFSB)—The first lawsuit has been filed by the family of a victim seriously injured in a train derailment last week. ...
Should Gunmakers Be Exposed To Lawsuits?
April 22, 2013Joel Faxon, a Newtown resident and father of young children, is one of the town's police commissioners. He is also a trial lawyer in the New Haven firm of Stratton Faxon. ...
Hundreds of runners dash through Danbury
April 07, 2013People run for a lot of reasons. On Sunday, Kevin Bresnahanand his family ran for Chase Kowalski. Bresnahan lives in Colchester, but along with his brother, James, and s...
Race to Honor First Responders
March 22, 2013Newtown Police Commission member Joel Faxon is the title sponsor for the 9th annual Stratton Faxon Greater Danbury Half Marathon and 5K road race scheduled for April 7 that begi...
Members in Motion
March 20, 2013The shootings in Newtown, Conn., have had a wide impact. Joel Faxon, who practices law at Stratton Faxon in nearby New Haven, lives in Newtown, so he feels the pain in his commu...
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