About the Firm

Connecticut Medical Malpractice & Personal Injury Attorney

The Berkowitz Law Firm is a well known medical malpractice and personal injury law firm. With over 40 years of experience, we have obtained substantial verdicts and settlements on behalf of medical malpractice and personal injury victims throughout the State of Connecticut.

We are known for our tenacity, integrity and experience as well as our history of successful case results. Our attorneys are committed to helping their clients receive just compensation and they will go to extraordinary and creative lengths to help their clients win. Because the lawyers at The Berkowitz Law Firm recognize the difficult financial and personal situation that a medical malpractice or personal injury victim faces, our firm operates on a contingency fee basis. This means that clients pay nothing unless their case is won. The Berkowitz Law Firm spares no expense preparing a case for trial so clients can have full confidence that we are doing everything possible to obtain a favorable verdict or settlement for their case.

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If you or a loved one has been injured, please contact us. Our attorneys have proven experience and are extremely easy to work with. We understand the difficult times you are facing and will do everything possible to help you.

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Recent Headlines at Berkowitz and Reinken

Russ Berkowitz has recently recovered $810,000.00 against a local high school and its school administrators and coaches on behalf of a high school student who sustained a fractured neck during an unsupervised, after school, off-season wrestling practice in the school’s gymnasium.

$2,450,000.00 total award against a hospital for its failure to properly restrain a hospital psychiatric patient who jumped out of a hospital window and fell three stories sustaining a permanent brain injury. Eric Blomberg and Russ Berkowitz represented the plaintiff.

Russ Berkowitz has been selected as a 2010 Super Lawyer...

$4,750,000.00 medical malpractice award on behalf of a child who sustained brain damage as a result of a hospital's negligent airway management.

$9,000,000.00 medical malpractice recovery against an obstetrician and a hospital whose failure to timely deliver the infant plaintiff, despite signs of fetal distress, left her severely brain damaged.

$6,100,000.00 settlement against a hospital and two physicians on behalf of a client who sustained permanent paralysis.

Joanne Sheehan recently settled a medical malpractice case for $1,800,000.00 against an optometrist who caused a female plaintiff to sustain permanent vision loss in both eyes following the improper administration of ophthalmic steroids despite said optometrist's knowledge of the plaintiff's history of steroid induced eye pressure.

$4,000,000.00 medical malpractice verdict

$2,600,000.00 wrongful death verdict