About Christopher Houlihan
Christopher M. Houlihan is a partner at RisCassi & Davis, P.C. and a lifelong Connecticut resident. He represents individuals injured by medical malpractice, motor vehicle accidents, dog attacks, slip and falls, defective products, and other complex catastrophic accidents, and has helped build the firm's product liability and mass tort practice. He has tried numerous jury cases to verdict and obtained tens of millions of dollars in compensation for his clients in state and federal courts throughout southern New England.
His clients have included victims of traumatic brain injuries, quadriplegia, severe orthopedic injuries, burns, scarring, sexual abuse, and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. He is licensed to practice in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, as well as the federal district courts in each of those states. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America in Personal Injury Litigation and Product Liability every year since 2021.
Proven verdicts and settlements at RisCassi & Davis
These results are credited to RisCassi & Davis. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Hartford jury returned a $7.25 million verdict for the estate of Daniel DiNardi, a Connecticut DOT supervisor fatally struck by a tractor-trailer while working on the shoulder of Route 8 northbound near Waterbury.
RisCassi and Davis attorneys secured a $6.5 million settlement for students hurt when a school bus plunged down a 20-foot I-84 embankment, killing a 16-year-old Rocky Hill boy on his way to a robotics competition.
Michael Jainchill of RisCassi & Davis secured a $3.8 million settlement for the adult children of Janet Pulver, a 66-year-old Avon grandmother killed when a speeding driver crossed the center line and struck her car head-on in Farmington, Connecticut.
A Hartford Superior Court jury returned a $3,476,025 verdict in September 2014 for motorcyclist Matthew Karotkin, who suffered skull fractures and a lung injury when a UPS driver cut left across his path at a Windsor, Connecticut intersection.
A Waterbury jury returned a $2 million verdict in November 2024 for construction laborer Keven Shepard, who was electrocuted when an excavator struck an Eversource power line marked nearly eight feet from its actual underground position.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
