Faced with a client who suffered head injuries in a rear-end motor vehicle accident and the defense offering just $19,902 to resolve the case, plaintiffs attorney Hailey Rice knew she had to get an expert—and a good one.

Rice, an associate with Glastonbury-based Connecticut Trial Firm, said she relied on a doctor her firm had used to much success before: neurologist Jeffrey Davis, who is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Brooklyn Hospital Medical Center in New York City.