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About Bill Bloss
After receiving his law degree in 1984 from Washington College of Law, The American University, Bill served as law clerk to U.S. District Judge Robert C. Zampano in New Haven and then to U.S. Circuit Judge Carolyn Dineen King in Houston. He then joined Jacobs, Grudberg, Belt & Dow, P.C., in New Haven, where he handled a broad variety of cases including personal injury, commercial disputes, and criminal defense. In 2004, he started practicing with Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder, P.C., in New Haven and Bridgeport. At Koskoff, Bill concentrates on wrongful death, product liability, and personal injury cases.
He has also been a member of the Criminal Justice Act panel in the U.S. District Court since 1986 and is a lecturer in trial practice at Yale Law School. Bill also has litigated several election cases, most recently the absentee ballot fraud case leading to a new primary and election in Bridgeport. He also represented Common Cause and Connecticut Citizen Action Group in federal litigation that led to the overhaul of the state primary election system, and he represented the state comptroller, several members of the General Assembly, including in one case clarifying the roles of the courts and the General Assembly in election disputes, and two Governors. Bill has been a member of the Federal Grievance Committee and two local panels of the Statewide Grievance Committee.
He was appointed to a committee to improve defense services under the Criminal Justice Act and served twice on committees to recommend U.S. Magistrate Judge candidates. In the community, Bill has been active with the Guilford Land Conservation Trust for over twenty years. He served on the Guilford Board of Education for twenty years, including fourteen years as its chairman.
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A federal jury awarded Cara Munn $41.7 million after she contracted tick-borne encephalitis on a school-sponsored trip to China and lost the ability to speak, and the Connecticut Supreme Court later held that schools can owe students a duty to warn about and protect against insect-borne disease on trips abroad.
On June 9, 2008, a 5-year-old nonswimmer in an after-school program at the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Waterbury went under in the club's indoor pool while the only lifeguard sat in a deck chair doing paperwork. Her 7-year-old brother tried to pull her out, the lifeguard told him to tug her to the side, and no one performed chest compressions for 11 minutes until paramedics arrived. She was declared brain dead the next day at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital. On September 18, 2014, after a two-week trial, a Waterbury jury found the club liable and awarded her estate $7.2 million and her mother $90,600 in medical and funeral expenses, part of a $12.3 million total verdict that also compensated her brother.
A 7-year-old boy was in the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Waterbury's indoor pool on June 9, 2008 when his 5-year-old sister, a nonswimmer, went under. He spent several minutes trying to pull her out, then went to the only lifeguard, who was sitting on the deck doing paperwork and told him to tug her to the side. His sister was declared brain dead the next day. On September 18, 2014, a Waterbury jury that found the club liable for the drowning awarded the boy $5 million for bystander emotional distress, separate from the $7.2 million it gave his sister's estate. His lawyer said the boy still believed he was to blame.
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