About Angelo Ziotas
Angelo Ziotas is a leading trial lawyer who has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for his clients in civil matters in Connecticut in the past 35 years. He represents plaintiffs in medical malpractice cases, serious personal injury claims and business disputes. Angelo has won more than 40 trials and his clients have received jury verdicts exceeding $1 million in medical malpractice actions, motor vehicle collisions, drownings, an elevator accident and an insurance "bad faith" suit. These verdicts include a $38.5 million jury award to compensate a young boy who suffered severe neurological injuries during childbirth, which, at the time of this verdict, was the largest in Connecticut history. He also represented the family of a young mother who was killed by a negligent tractor-trailer driver.
The defendants settled after three weeks of trial, while the jury was deliberating, and paid a total of $19.75 million, one of Connecticut's largest wrongful death settlements. In addition to winning awards at trial, Angelo has settled cases totaling over $100 million in the last 5 years, including $75 million in medical malpractice cases. He was board certified as a civil trial attorney by the National Board of Trial Advocacy in 1998. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association in 2026.
Proven verdicts and settlements
Elizabeth Oram delivered twins at Stamford Hospital on April 4, 2003. The first was born healthy at 3:11 a.m. Two minutes later the second twin showed fetal distress from a compressed umbilical cord, but the cesarean was not completed until 3:38 a.m. The boy was born with severe brain damage and cerebral palsy. After a seven-week trial, a Stamford jury found obstetrician Dr. Corinne de Cholnoky liable in February 2008 and awarded $38.5 million, then the largest medical malpractice verdict in Connecticut.
Cristina Vomoca, 38, died eight days after a ShopRite tractor-trailer ran a red light in Greenwich and struck her car in 2016. Food Haulers Inc. and its parent Wakefern Food Corp. settled with her estate for $18.75 million in August 2019, roughly a day after a Stamford jury had already been handed the case.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
