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December 10, 2007 |

A New Look At A Cold Case

It started as a simple conversation among colleagues at the New Haven State's Attorney's office earlier this year. It continued with a phone call to a retired State Police detective. Then in late November, the announcement came.
4 minute read
March 22, 2013 |

Chief State's Attorney To Release Newtown Data In Light of Disclosure At Conference

The chief state's attorney has agreed to release additional information to the public about the State Police investigation into the Newtown elementary school massacre, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said late last week.
3 minute read
October 01, 2007 |

Client's Calls, Note Under Door Go Unanswered

After securing a $60,000 judgment, New Haven lawyer Caleb Pilgrim was incommunicado with a client who sought information about the award.
3 minute read
May 07, 2007 |

Commentary: 24-Hour News Cycle? Not On A Blogger's Life

Amid the screaming and righteous indignation of the Don Imus incident, communications crisis managers were learning their own lesson. And it wasn't that TV networks, hit in the pocketbook, can get very moral (we already knew that); it was that speed really does kill.
4 minute read
July 11, 2007 |

Dockside Workers Get Choice of State or Federal Workers' Comp

Connecticut's Supreme Court has held that injured shipyard workers may choose between state or federal workers' comp remedies, rejecting a rigid U.S. Supreme Court doctrine set forth in 1917. The state Supreme Court held that the state and the federal government have concurrent jurisdiction over certain waterfront injury cases, dependent on the worker's connection to the state -- whether his employer is based in Connecticut and would have to provide compensation for a land-based injury.
5 minute read
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May 07, 2012 |

Med-Mal Lawsuit Change Defeated

Both defense and plaintiffs lawyers were shocked late last week when the legislature defeated a measure designed to lower the barrier to filing a medical malpractice suit. During four hours of debate in the House of Representatives, state Rep. Prasad Srinivasan, R- Glastonbury, a Hartford allergy doctor, contended the measure would be bad for doctors, and possibly encourage meritless lawsuits. His arguments may have helped turn the tide for the bill that has been the top item on the agenda of Connecticut's trial bar. The House defeated the measure 74-69.
6 minute read
September 13, 2013 |

Opinion: A Moment Of Righteous Road Rage

It's a jungle out there. You know it. I know it. The open road is a one-way trip back to the state of nature – you know, that place Thomas Hobbes wrote about in the 17th century, the place where life is poor, nasty, solitary, brutish, and short.
4 minute read
February 26, 2013 |

Losing The Law And The Republic

In a future century, historians will write books analyzing the decline and fall of the American Republic in the same way that historians analyze the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. I fully expect that the consensus of these future scholars will be to lay the blame for the fall on lawyers — for corrupting the law and undermining the foundation on which the Republic was established.
5 minute read
October 02, 2006 |

Pinney Payne Cuts Partner Loose

As of Sept. 22, veteran Danbury criminal defense lawyer Joseph E. Dimyan was officially out on his own. But in the less-than-amicable breakup, his former law firm, Pinney Payne, has instigated a forensic audit to determine whether Dimyan had been out on his own long before the split, and taking fees that were not shared with his partners.
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June 21, 2002 |

Insurance Fraud Costs Americans $20 Billion a Year

Insurance fraud appears to be on the rise. Among the more common schemes are property fraud, medical fraud and personal-injury fraud. The more esoteric forms include life insurance fraud and disaster-related fraud, such as claims arising from the World Trade Center disaster. Insurers and attorneys can combat fraud by improving the documentation process, being wary of exaggerated claims and thoroughly investigating claims.
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