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• Fatal Car Crash, I-84W in West Hartford Claims Life

  James Sabatini | May 30, 2006 11:51 AM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  Over the weekend, a fatal car crash on Interstate 84 in the Town of West Hartford has taken one life and injured another. The driver of a car lost control around a curve, sailed over the grassy median and crashed into an oncoming car. According to the Hartford Courant:The eastbound traveling car flew over the median and crashed into a westbound car. The crash set off a four car collision...

• Truck Accident Causes I-95 Ramp, Lane Closures

  James Sabatini | May 25, 2006 3:05 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  The Kimberly Avenue off ramp and the right and center lanes od South I-95 were closed recently when a tractor-trailer went off the bridge of the exit 44 ramp. The noon accident took over three hours to clear.According to the Hartford Courant:Traffic was backed up northbound on I-95 to Exit 41, southbound traffic on I-95 was bumper-to-bumper all the way to the Pearl Harbor Memorial "Q-Bridge,"...

• Bausch & Lomb Recall Saga Followed Closely

  Staff Writer | May 22, 2006 11:53 AM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  Fellow InjuryBoard.com blogger, Sarasota lawyer Joe Saunders, has been following the Bausch and Lomb Renu news with quite a watchful eye and made several posts about the link between the contact lens solution and the fungal infection fusarium keratitis.Last week, the CDC released an update on Renu with moistureloc and fusarium keratitis which announced the agency had received reports of 130...

• Guidant Issues Yet Another Defibrillator Warning

  Staff Writer | May 17, 2006 12:17 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  Brandon Smith at Childers, Buck and Schlueter in Atlanta brought my attention to a Guidant article from Bloomberg News in the St. Paul Pioneer Press. It appears Guidant is having yet another problem with their difibrillators as almost 1000 devices may quit working prematurely.According to the Guidant defibrillator defect article:Defibrillators are implanted in the chests of heart-failure...

• Three, YES 3!, Percent of Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Frivolous

  Staff Writer | May 12, 2006 12:29 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  A recent study in the New England Journal of medicine found that three percent of medical malpractice lawsuits filed have no verifiable injuries. This means that in 97% of all cases, there is a verifiable injury, and that lawsuit cannot be called frivolous. Justinian at corpreform.com has a great analogy at his site:The remaining question is whether malpractice was the cause of those injuries....

• Premises Liability (Slip and Fall) Overview

  Staff Writer | April 22, 2006 12:49 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  While all states differ in their particular laws for premises liabilty lawsuits, miami.injuryboard.com offers a pretty comprehensive overview. Obviously there cen be different types of slips and falls depending on which area of the country a person is in (I doubt there are many slips on ice in Miami!), but a general rule to remember is that a landowner, business owner, homeowner, etc. may be...

• James V. Sabatini, Attorney at Law

  Staff Writer | January 22, 2006 11:31 AM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  Born :Hartford, Connecticut September 29, 1971Admitted: 1998 - Connecticut 1998 - US District Court, District of Connecticut 2004 - United States Court of Federal Claims Education:Hamilton College (B.A., 1994)Case Western Reserve University (JD, 1998) Member: Hartford County Bar Association Connecticut and American Bar Associations The Association of Trial Lawyers of America Connecticut Trial...

• Sabatini & Associates, Attorneys at Law

  Staff Writer | January 22, 2006 11:28 AM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  Sabatini and Associates, LLC was founded by Vincent F. Sabatini. The firm is composed of trial lawyers engaged in the practice of law in five main areas: personal injury, commercial litigation, land use and zoning, real estate and employment litigation. The firm, through its attorneys and legal support staff consisting of law clerks and paralegals, also provides additional legal services to our...

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  Staff Writer | January 22, 2006 11:25 AM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

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