Kathleen Nastri

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 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.

Barbara Lathan, a 65-year-old from the Southport section of Fairfield, Connecticut, walked into Bridgeport Hospital on October 3, 2007 to be treated for a urinary tract infection. Staff overdosed her six times with the blood thinner Lovenox; she bled into her abdomen, went into cardiac arrest, was revived and underwent emergency surgery, then contracted MRSA through a central line in her neck, developed an orange-sized abscess and lost part of her shoulder bone to further surgery. She left 75 days later in a hospital bed and never walked again. In October 2013 a Bridgeport jury deliberated about 90 minutes and awarded her $9,279,884.95, and Bridgeport Hospital's owner publicly apologized to her.

Dr. Jacqueline Satchell, a 51-year-old primary care physician and Yale clinical assistant professor who had cared for New Haven patients for two decades, was admitted to Yale New Haven Hospital's Saint Raphael campus in October 2020 with a perforated bowel. Surgeons removed part of her infected intestine, but over the following days her estate said the signs of a worsening infection and organ dysfunction were overlooked, no specialist consultations or second operation were pursued, and by the time doctors acted she was too sick to save. She died on October 7, 2020. On June 10, 2026, after a multi-week trial, a New Haven jury awarded her estate $7,730,000 against Yale New Haven Hospital and Yale University. Yale said it was disappointed and would evaluate its appellate options.

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.