Hartford Personal Injury Lawyer articles in category: Miscellaneous

When the AMA published the Sixth Edition of its Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, it contained new language that restricted chiropractic evaluations to the spine only. The restriction drew sharp criticism from the American Chiropractic Association. In a letter to the AMA, the ACA questioned the legality of restrictive language related to evaluations by doctors of chiropractic...

Two men who say they were sexually molested by Dr. George Reardon filed lawsuits Thursday against St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, claiming the hospital was negligent in its supervision of the doctor during the 30 years he practiced there. In the latest suits, the men say Reardon fondled and photographed them in his private St. Francis office during the 1970s or early 1980s. One suit...

Haven Healthcare, the Connecticut nursing home operator has filed for bankruptcy. I recently blogged about this nursing home operator's CEO who funded a record label start up company while his company's nursing homes were failing to pay their bills. Haven's bankruptcy filing reveals that the company's 50 largest creditors are owed nearly $31 million.State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal...

In late 2005, Haven Healthcare CEO Raymond Termini decided to pursue a longtime dream: He launched a record label in Nashville to produce both little-known and established country musicians. Within in a few months, the company gets the cash to sign major artists such as Travis Tritt. Back in Connecticut, residents of his nursing home in Jewett City spent a cold December night. After months of...

Some Countrywide Financial Corp. employees have sued their employer. The employees are claiming they suffered heavy losses in their 401k retirement accounts after the company failed to warn them about the depth of its financial troubles.The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, seeks class-action status and names as defendants Countrywide Chairman and Chief Executive Angelo Mozilo...

An 18-year-old Connecticut resident was killed this week after he was hit with a personal watercraft on Lake Gaston in North Carolina. The man and his friend were operating Jet skis on a lake when his friends jet ski struck the man the head. Officials are withholding the man's identity until his relatives are notified. The 18-year-old and a friend were vacationing with family at Lake Gaston,...

A Naugatuck priest is facing charges of sexually assaulting a minor. Father Robert J. Grant, of St. Mary's Church on North Main Street, was arrested on Thursday after an investigation by Naugatuck police.

The pilots in a jet crash last summer that killed 49 people left the terminal without receiving four important airport advisories, including one that said the normal taxiway to the main runway was closed. Comair Flight 5191 crashed on August 27, 2006, shortly after mistakenly taking off from the general aviation runway, killing all people aboard but one. The plane taxied to the wrong runway in...

An initial probe of a Brazilian plane crash that killed at least 200 people suggests the airliner's pilot tried to abort a crash landing, an official said Wednesday. For more information on this subject matter, please refer to the section on Airline, Cruise, Bus, and other Mass Transit Accidents.

A TAM Airlines Airbus 320 carrying 176 people crashed while attempting to land in heavy rain at Sao Paulo's Congon has Airport, the airline said. The Sao Paulo fire department said at least 200 people, including some on the ground, were dead at the scene. There was no immediate word on survivors.A Brazilian Court had previously banned large jets from using the runway due to safety concerns. The...

A small plane trying to make an emergency landing crashed into a suburban Orlando neighborhood Tuesday, killing both people aboard and starting two house fires that burned two adults and a 10-year-old boy. The cause of this fatal crash is under investigation.For more information on this subject, please refer to our section on Airlines, Cruise, Buses, and Other Mass Transit Accidents.

As we approach July 4, many of us start thinking about fireworks. Under Connecticut law, only a limited type of fireworks are legal. Specifically, only sparklers are legal. All other fireworks are illegal. Sparklers, as determined by the state, include sparkling devices of not more than one hundred grams of pyrotechnic mixture per item, which are non-explosive and non-aerial. These include...

A small plane crashed Sunday near a highway in eastern Connecticut and caught on fire, killing two people on board, officials from the Federal Aviation Administration and state police said.FAA spokeswoman Holly Baker said the Piper PA-23 went down adjacent to U.S. 6 near Windham Airport shortly before 4 p.m. The fire damage was so severe that the plane's tail number initially could not be read...

Two of the three people killed in the crash of a small plane in Maryland on Wednesday were from Connecticut.The three people killed were members of the Mahopac Golf Club in New York and were headed to North Carolina for a golf outing. The NTSB is investigating the crash.

A small plane crashed into a home near a southern Indiana airport Monday, killing both people aboard, authorities said. There were no immediate reports of injuries on the ground, though the impact left much of the plane lodged inside the house.