Other Practice Areas

Connecticut Medical Malpractice and Other Practice Areas

Product liability/ defective drugs can cause serious health complications and death. In recent years, the FDA and drug companies have been under growing scrutiny for the defective drugs recalled from the market. What ensued from the drug recalls were personal injury and product liability claims.

Financial Profit Over Consumer Safety

Drug companies have been accused of putting financial profits over consumer safety and the FDA has been accused of failing to step in and fill the gap by making sure adequate monitoring of consumer safety exists. The ability to file product liability/ defective drugs claims may finally lead to a closer examination of federal regulation and force drug companies to reprioritize putting consumer safety ahead of company profits by holding them accountable for deceptive and criminal behavior.

Meet the Attorneys

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