Connecticut Voices for Civil Justice

The Center for Justice & Democracy has a new White Paper out today on how the current administration is privatizing federal jobs to the detriment of public safety.
Unfortunately, we have all seen the effects from the Walter Reed Medical Center shenanigans–a direct product of corporate takeover.
For a short time, you can read the White Paper […]

Our injured veterans coming back from Iraq have filed a class action lawsuit against the United States government, accusing them of breaking the law by not providing disability pay and mental health benefits.
Read the full story.
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Hartford - When Connecticut state legislators passed a series of medical malpractice insurance and litigation reforms in 2005 (Public Act 05-275), considerable debate ensued regarding the cause of skyrocketing insurance premiums paid by doctors.   While convincing evidence supported the view that insurance company profits and the normal business cycle were the cause of these increased […]

Thomas Sullivan gives readers a first hand glance at Guananamo Bay, its prisoners, and how lawlessness has prevailed.
Read the full story here (pdf). 

Per statutory guidelines, the Department of Insurance has released their report on medical malpractice closed claims. Some data does appear to be incomplete as some carriers did not report their closed claims, added to the fact that claims that were closed with a settlement do not breakdown damages by economic (e.g. medical expenses, etc.) and […]

Last night, the Appropriations Committee passed out our wage-loss benefits bill for injured workers by a 24-18 vote.
See the vote tally after the jump.

USA Today has a great opinion column from Jonathan Turley (via TortDeform).
For decades, our military members have been barred from suing for medical malpractice and other forms of negligence by the government. Whether it is a military doctor cutting off the wrong leg or a military gasoline station cutting a brake line, military personnel are […]

Governor Rell went inside the insurance industry in her proclaimed “national” search to find a replacement for Susan Cogswell, who Rell asked to resign after winning reelection last year.
Rell chose Thomas R. Sullivan of Southington, a senior vice president of The Hartford’s subsidiary Specialty Risk Services LLC, who has more than 20 years’ experience in […]

The New Britain Herald wrote up a story today on a woman who was arrested for defrauding the workers’ compensation system. Evidently, she forged medical documents that ended up giving her a windfall of $2,000.
While I won’t doubt the existence of fraudulent workers’ compensation claims, it is ridiculous to even look at this woman […]

The Atlanta Journal Constitution ($) covered a great story in February on the rising rates of injuries among the Latino community.
At a time when overall workplace fatalities are dipping, deaths for Hispanics rose 13.6 percent in 2004 and nearly 2 percent more in 2005, the most recent number available from the U.S. Bureau of Labor […]