The plaintiff was a friend of the defendant’s son, who at the time was playing with the defendant’s son in the defendant’s backyard. The boys were jumping off of a fully constructed plastic playset as well as a partially constructed…
The plaintiffs, Connecticut Dermatology Group, PC, Live Every Day, LLC, and Ear Specialty Group of Connecticut PC, brought suit against the defendants, their insurance providers, under their policies containing provisions requiring insurance companies to “pay for direct physical loss of…
Drunk or drugged drivers that cause personal injury or wrongful death need to be held responsible for their decision to drive. Our lawyers at Jackson O’Keefe have the knowledge and experience to pursue the legal responsibility of third parties for…
After a collision between the plaintiff and a snowplow truck owned by the State of Connecticut, the issue of liability arose at trial. The plaintiff maintained that the operator of the snowplow was on or over the double yellow lines…
In this action, the homeowner appealed the Superior Court’s decision of summary judgment in favor of insurer. The homeowner brought a direct action against their general contractor’s commercial general liability insurer seeking to recover default judgment in underlying negligence action,…
The defendant, Wright, allegedly sped through a stop sign and collided with the plaintiff’s vehicle, causing several injuries to the plaintiff. The Plaintiff alleged that the defendant was intoxicated at the time of the motor vehicle collision, and that earlier…
The plaintiff in this underlying action was struck by a police cruiser when she was crossing a street on her lunch break from her job at the Yale Art Gallery. The plaintiff sued Officer Brendan Hosey and the City of…
The defendant moved to strike the common-law recklessness and statutory recklessness counts of the plaintiff’s complaint. The Hartford Superior Court denied the motion to strike, holding that the plaintiff sufficiently alleged common-law and statutory recklessness. As to the common-law recklessness…
The Appellate Court affirms the granting of Summary Judgment for defendant, property owner, where plaintiff brought claims sounding in negligence, negligence per se, and nuisance against abutting property owner for an injury caused by a defective sidewalk. The law holds…
The plaintiff was injured when two tortfeasors stole a cab owned by the defendant, after the driver left the keys in the ignition of the unlocked cab in a high crime area, and the tortfeasors attempted to flee the scene…