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About Christine M. Maiello
Chris has devoted her career to medical malpractice investigation, litigation and resolution, as well as the improvement of quality of care systems and processes that can give rise to patient harm. She joined the firm in 2025 to bring that deep experience to the leadership of the medical malpractice intake team at Koskoff. Chris began her career in medical malpractice defense work in CT before joining a commercial insurer to manage and resolve high-exposure medical malpractice claims nationally. In that role, she managed thousands of claims and cases involving patient harm across all aspects of delivery of care systems.
She also developed a critical understanding of the inner workings of professional liability insurance including actuarial, underwriting, claims and coverage analysis. She went on to become the Head of Claims with oversight of Risk Management for a major healthcare system in CT. This experience expanded Chris' work beyond the resolution of medical malpractice claims to include investigation of patient harm events at their inception, as well as advocacy for risk mitigation and quality improvement initiatives. As part of this role, she spearheaded the rebuilding of a communication and resolution program to bring transparency and accountability for patient harm events to patients and their families.
This background has equipped Chris with a unique understanding of the healthcare industry and insurance systems underlying the complex medical malpractice landscape. Chris brings a passion for improvement of patient care to the firm's current and prospective clients each day. She approaches each client and case with compassionate advocacy and the overarching goal of providing clients and their families with a learned guide in their search for answers.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder, P.C.
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On December 14, 2012, a 20-year-old gunman used a Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle made by Remington to kill 20 first graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Nine of the victims' families sued Remington in 2014, arguing that its marketing of the AR-15-style rifle to young, violence-prone men was an unfair trade practice that fell outside the federal immunity gun makers enjoy. The Connecticut Supreme Court let that claim proceed in 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene, and after Remington went through bankruptcy twice its four insurers agreed on February 15, 2022 to pay the families the full $73 million available under five policies. Remington also had to release thousands of pages of internal marketing documents.
A Waterbury jury awarded Dominic and Cathy D'Attilo and their son Daniel $58.6 million after finding that obstetrician Richard Viscarello delayed a necessary cesarean section during Daniel's birth, depriving him of oxygen and leaving him with severe cerebral palsy.
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.
E.M. was a boarding student at the Yeshiva of New Haven from 2001 to 2005, and from age 14 to 17 the school's rabbi and chief administrator, Daniel Greer, sexually abused him on a frequent, sometimes weekly basis. In May 2017 a federal jury in Connecticut awarded E.M. $15 million against Greer and the school, and on June 6, 2017 the court entered a $21,749,041.10 judgment after adding $5 million in punitive damages and $1.75 million in offer-of-compromise interest. The Second Circuit affirmed in full on March 3, 2020, rejecting the argument that the award was excessive. Greer was separately convicted and sent to prison; by 2021 less than $240,000 of the judgment had been collected, and E.M.'s collection suits against Greer's real-estate nonprofits were resolved privately in 2024.
A New Haven jury awarded the estate of Maria Ocasio $15.4 million after finding that an anesthesiologist and nurse anesthetist from Meriden-Wallingford Anesthesia Group failed to recognize and respond to her respiratory collapse during a routine outpatient endoscopy, leading to her death.
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