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About David M. Bernard
David Bernard is a civil litigator who practices in the areas of personal injury law, products liability, class action litigation and appellate law. David recently won a $10 million verdict for a woman who was in a coma as a result of improperly administered anesthesia during a routine surgery. Prior to joining Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder in 2010, David worked as a creditors' rights attorney at Day Pitney LLP handling all aspects of commercial litigation on behalf of creditors including corporate bankruptcies, restructurings, commercial collections and foreclosures and various other contract disputes. David also has significant experience in family law and education litigation, representing clients in divorces and custody disputes as well as school planning and placement team meetings (PPTs) and disciplinary proceedings.
David currently serves on the Woodbridge Board of Education and chairs it's policy committee. He also serves on the Board of Governors of ACES (Active Cooperative Educational Services). He is an active member of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, the New Haven Bar Association, New Haven Inns of Court and the American Association for Justice. David received his B.A., with distinction, in 2001 from the University of Michigan and his J.D., with honors, in 2004 from the University of Connecticut School of Law.
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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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