About Johnathan Seredynski
John Seredynski is a partner in SGT's Class Actions and Complex Civil Litigation practice groups. He has broad experience representing plaintiffs in complex litigation, including federal securities, commodities and antitrust class actions, shareholder, contract, and partnership disputes, consumer protection, environmental litigation, internal and government investigations and whistleblower actions that have resulted in billions of dollars of recoveries. He currently represents plaintiffs in the firm's cases related to securities fraud, price-fixing, PFAS contamination and consumer fraud. John was named a Super Lawyer in Class Actions in 2023 and a Rising Star from 2015 to 2021. He serves as the secretary of the Connecticut Bar Association's Antitrust Section.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Silver Golub & Teitell LLP
These results are credited to Silver Golub & Teitell LLP. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A federal jury found that R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company had defectively designed Salem cigarettes and awarded Barbara Izzarelli nearly $8 million; punitive damages and years of accruing interest, upheld on appeal and left standing when the Supreme Court declined to hear the case, eventually brought the total to $52.3 million.
Jennifer Anderson tested positive for high-risk HPV at annual visits with her gynecologist over several years, and no colposcopy was ever performed. By the time her cervical cancer was found in 2019 it had spread to her chest, abdomen, and pelvis. A Stamford jury awarded her $39 million and her husband $10 million.
On July 26, 2007, a 6-year-old boy drowned in his family's backyard pool in Greenwich when his arm was sucked into a wall drain feeding a spillover spa. Connecticut had required dual drains and a vacuum-release device since 2004, a year before the pool was permitted, and the builder had installed neither. The pool company's president pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide in 2011, the first such prosecution of a pool builder in the country. By May 2013 the parents, Brian and Karen Cohn, had settled with all nine defendants for a combined $40 million, all of it directed to the water-safety foundation they created in their son's name.
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.
Elizabeth Tigani was 32 when she was admitted to deliver her first child. After nearly a day of labor she had a cesarean section that, her lawyers argued, was both ordered too late and performed negligently, permanently injuring her bladder and uterus. A Stamford jury awarded $30.4 million after an eight-year fight.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
