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About Josh Koskoff
Josh Koskoff represents the third generation of Koskoffs at Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder and continues the family's legacy of representing individuals against powerful opponents in challenging cases. Known for his dedication, compassion, and creativity, Josh brings a fresh and unique perspective to all his cases. Like his father and grandfather, Josh believes strongly in the role of the lawyer as a fighter whose sole purpose is to improve his clients' lives through the legal system. He views the law as working only when it works for all people and not just the powerful.
His personal concern for the welfare of each of his clients has won their trust and devotion. Josh was recognized as an "Innovator" on TIME Magazine's list of The 100 Most Influential People of 2025 for his impactful work in gun litigation. Koskoff obtained two historic victories on behalf of families of victims of the Sandy Hook School shooting and currently represents families of victims from the Highland Park and Uvalde mass shootings. In 2022, after a nearly ten-year battle, Josh won a settlement for nine Sandy Hook families against Remington Arms Company: the manufacturer and marketer of the Bushmaster AR-15 assault rifle used in the shooting.
The settlement of $73 million dollars is the largest settlement ever paid to families of a mass shooting. Later that year, Josh won a second historic victory as part of a three-person team of Koskoff lawyers that secured a $1.5 billion defamation verdict against InfoWars owner Alex Jones in the case of Lafferty, et al. v. Alex Jones. This marked the largest verdict in Connecticut history and is believed to be the largest defamation verdict in U.S. history. For nearly 25 years Josh has won tough courtroom battles throughout Connecticut establishing record verdicts in Medical Malpractice and other cases.
Recent successful settlements also include a groundbreaking suit against Harvard University for their ownership of images depicting enslaved people (2025) and a substantial settlement against Yale University's Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Clinic after a nurse with a fentanyl addiction repeatedly swapped anesthesia for saline (2024). This case was featured on the 2023 podcast The Retrievals from Serial Productions and The New York Times and started a conversation on medical gaslighting in women's health care. Regardless of whether it's a case of national importance, or it involves helping one family cope with catastrophic or life changing loss, Josh feels most rewarded fighting for his clients to try to help them have better and more satisfying lives.
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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 Danbury jury awarded Vivian Gagliano and her husband roughly $12 million after her colon was perforated during hernia repair surgery at Danbury Hospital, and the Connecticut Supreme Court later affirmed the verdict, holding Danbury Hospital vicariously liable for the surgical resident who performed the procedure.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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