- Wrongful DeathMs. Hagerty began her career in Chicago, Illinois, where she practiced for many years with a large litigation firm defending medical malpractice, hospital negligence and product liability (medical device) cases. Prior to joining the firm, she was a partner at a Stamford, Connecticut litigation firm where she also focused her practice on medical malpractice defense. Ms. Hagerty’s representative experience includes defending medical malpractice cases including wrongful death and permanent injury due to surgical complications including bariatric and neurosurgical procedures; failed Stryker and Zimmer hip prostheses; hypoxic induced brain injury in newborns; delayed diagnosis of cancer and cardiovascular disease; permanent neurologic injury and death following general anesthesia; failed cardiac resuscitation; catastrophic outcomes in the emergency department setting; and blindness following ophthalmologic treatment in adults and children.
- Sex CrimesMr. Kocienda has litigated multiple jury cases to verdict with great success, and has successfully defended medical professionals in arbitration and mediation. Mr. Kocienda defends and tries claims involving significant exposure, including wrongful death, quadriplegia, severe and catastrophic permanent injury and significant financial loss. He has particular experience in defending the medical specialty of psychiatry, and regularly represents the specialties of spine, orthopedic, vascular and general surgery, emergency medicine, critical care, internal medicine, radiology, pathology, oncology, infectious disease and hematology. He is also routinely requested to defend medical professionals against licensing challenges brought by the Department of Public Health. Additionally, Mr. Kocienda represents institutions in sexual assault litigation, violations of patient-physician boundaries, and medical battery as well as medical and non-medical product liability.
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- ArsonIllustrative examples of significant reported cases handled in the recent past include: Carlson v. Waterbury Hospital, 280 Conn. 125 (2006)[Apportionment held appropriate in case of settling defendant; $16 million verdict overturned]; Travelers Ins. Co. v. Namerow, 257 Conn. 812 on reconsideration en banc 261 Conn. 784 (2002)[Held that motive is not an essential element of proof in a civil arson case]; Santini v. Connecticut Hazardous Waste Management Service, 251 Conn. 121 (1999) cert. den. 530 U.S. 1225 (2000)[Governmental planning activity held not to constitute a taking in a case involving the designation of a low level radioactive waste disposal facility]; and Lodge v. Arett Sales, 246 Conn. 563 (1998)[Defendant who negligently caused the transmission of a false fire alarm held not liable to firefighters injured during an accident precipitated by the negligent maintenance and failure of the brakes of the responding fire engine].
- Business FormationMs. Bacchus Lee primarily focuses her practice on civil litigation, including medical malpractice defense. Prior to joining DANAHERLAGNESE, PC, she provided general legal services to clients with a focus on business formation and contract law.
- Business DisputesThe firm has a number of attorneys experienced in commercial litigation and has handled a variety of business disputes involving such matters as breach of contract, unjust enrichment, unfair business practices, foreclosures, business torts, anti-trust actions, and other statutory and common law causes of action.
- Trade Secrets
- Intellectual Property
- Employment DiscriminationJoseph Walsh primarily focuses his practice on civil litigation with an emphasis on medical malpractice defense. Prior to joining DanaherLagnese, he was an associate attorney for a general litigation firm in the Greater Bridgeport area where he litigated a wide range of complex civil litigation matters for both plaintiffs and defendants with an emphasis on personal injury, employment discrimination, products liability, insurance coverage, construction liability, and contract litigation. Mr. Walsh has handled matters from client intake through trial and appeal.
- Employment LitigationMr. Johnson litigates a wide range of business disputes including employment disputes, and maintains an active construction law practice in which he drafts and negotiates contracts among owners, contractors, subcontractors and design professionals and litigates construction disputes.
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- Sexual HarassmentThe firm has an active practice in the field of insurance coverage litigation. It has provided both coverage opinions and courtroom representation in a wide variety of situations in which there has been a substantial question over insurance coverage. These situations range from simple coverage questions under individual general liability policies to complicated questions of coverage under commercial insurance policies. Examples of such insurance coverage questions include the meaning of pollution exclusion language in comprehensive general liability policies, professional liability policies, and first party property coverage situations, the meaning of the employment policies and practices exclusion, various forms of insurance coverage questions in sexual harassment situations, bad faith and/or failure to settle claims in excess liability situations, drop down in insurer insolvencies, reinsurance arbitration issues, primary-excess insurer coverage questions, insurance coverage for DES birth defect related liability, known loss issues, and London market insurance questions.
- Premises LiabilityThe firm has had extensive involvement in general defense litigation matters for over 3 decades. We have represented the policyholders of most of the area’s major liability insurers over the years, as well as numerous self insured companies. Members of the firm have litigated general defense cases in every venue throughout the state of Connecticut. Such cases have included motor vehicle accidents, boating and other recreational accidents, slip and fall cases, improper security cases, product liability claims, premises liability actions, defamation claims, civil rights violations, and virtually all forms of professional malpractice actions.
- Construction Litigation
- Property DamageMr. Anderson’s major area of practice is civil litigation involving construction, insurance coverage, environmental contamination, product liability, intellectual property and medical malpractice. The cases have involved the defense of architects and engineers; claims of differential settlement by adjacent landowners arising out of dewatering activities used during the construction of the John Hancock Tower in Boston, Massachusetts; property damage claims arising out of the use of asbestos-containing fireproofing at Towers 1 and 2 of the World Trade Center in New York City and structures in Dayton, Ohio; the PCB contamination of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania office buildings in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; “sick building” claims; product liability claims alleging defective design or manufacture of medical devices, latex gloves, boilers and other products; patent infringement claims concerning novel wastewater treatment technologies; insurance coverage claims arising out of the contamination of New Bedford Harbor, the contamination of groundwater at Harvard University, property damage and bodily injuries arising out of the Kleen Energy gas explosion in Middletown, Connecticut and numerous other construction-related insurance coverage matters.
- Personal InjuryMs. DeRose has experience through all phases of civil and criminal litigation from initial case evaluation through trial, jury verdict and appeal. She has both prosecuted and defended personal injury litigation with substantial experience and success in defending civil personal injury trials. In defending clients on behalf of the Allstate Insurance Company, she tried more than 20 personal injury cases to verdict with excellent results. She is a graduate of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.
- Medical MalpracticePlaintiffs withdrew a medical malpractice lawsuit against a medical group and its anesthesiologist and nurse anesthetist following completion of depositions of plaintiff’s standard of care experts with no payment made on behalf of any medical provider. Jake Kocienda represented the defendants. (2019)
- Estate PlanningMs. Bacchus Lee graduated from The City College of New York with a Bachelor of Arts in 1998. She went on to earn a Master of Arts from New York University in 2001 and a Juris Doctor from Suffolk University Law School in 2007. While attending law school, Ms. Bacchus Lee was a law clerk for a boutique litigation and estate planning practice in Boston. After graduation, she served as a legal intern for the Honorable Barbara M. G. Lynn of the United States District Court in the Northern District of Texas.
- ProbateMs. Rosenkrantz graduated from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Arts in 2007. She earned her J.D. from Quinnipiac University School of Law in 2011. While attending Quinnipiac University School of Law as a Dean’s Fellow, Ms. Rosenkrantz interned with a Federal District Court Judge for the District of Connecticut and the Office of the Attorney General of Connecticut in the Department of Special Litigation. Ms. Rosenkrantz was also the Supervising Editor of the Probate Law Journal and a member and competitor of the Moot Court Society. During her matriculation at Quinnipiac University School of Law, Ms. Rosenkrantz earned awards for Distinguished Academic Achievement, Academic Excellence and Outstanding Performance in Oral Advocacy.
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