In Connecticut’s top ranks of medical malpractice defense lawyers, Bridgeport’s Madonna Sacco is a hero to doctors and their insurance companies. She’s the feisty “army of one” who stands between them and multi-million dollar plaintiffs’ verdicts and settlements.

“I think my reputation speaks for itself,” she told The Law Tribune, referring questions to her legal ethics defense lawyer, Richard Meehan, of Bridgeport’s Meehan, Meehan & Gavin.