About Christine Norton
Christine's practice is concentrated in the areas of medical malpractice. Christine has managed all aspects of litigation in Connecticut State and Federal Courts and is admitted to practice in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Christine's compassion for injured parties and their families, along with her extensive medical and legal knowledge, enables clients to feel comfortable telling their stories. Often, clients and families are in a time of crisis and overwhelmed when they reach out for an attorney to assist them in a medical malpractice claim. Christine's thoroughness, understanding of medical malpractice claims, knowledge, experience, and compassion assures clients that all aspects of their claims are fully understood - no matter how complicated or involved. Christine has managed all aspects of litigation in Connecticut State and Federal Courts and is admitted to practice in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Christine attended the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and Suffolk University Law School in Boston. After graduating from law school, Christine worked as a clerk for the Honorable Robert L. Holzberg at the Waterbury Superior Court.
Christine is a member of the American Bar Association, the Connecticut Bar Association, and the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association. She has represented clients from all over the state for a variety of medical claims, including nursing homes, radiology, general surgery, anesthesiology, internal medicine, urology, obstetrics and gynecology, plastic surgery, emergency medicine, and pediatrics. These cases have included claims of significant economic loss, wrongful death, and catastrophic permanent injury.
Proven verdicts and settlements at D'Amico & Pettinicchi, LLC
These results are credited to D'Amico & Pettinicchi, LLC. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Waterbury jury awarded Don Zemo IV $45 million after finding that a tow truck illegally parked outside MyHoopty.com's Oakville lot blocked the sightline for a car pulling out, causing a collision that left him permanently paralyzed.
A Waterbury jury awarded $23.05 million to a Wolcott boy who suffered permanent traumatic brain damage when the school bus he was riding, carrying students with disabilities, struck a tree after its driver swerved to avoid an oncoming car.
A Connecticut Superior Court jury awarded Donna Yeager $1,380,240 in June 2009 after a September 2006 rear-end collision in Waterbury, which happened while she was working, left her with back injuries that led to disc surgery. The Connecticut Supreme Court affirmed the verdict in 2011. It also ruled that the trial court had wrongly struck her offer of compromise and sent the case back so that interest could be awarded.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
