The Firm is pleased to announce that Chambers USA has continued to recognize Halloran & Sage’s practice areas and individual attorneys with its 2016 edition. Chambers, an international publisher of legal profession guides, is esteemed worldwide for its detailed research and review process. Halloran & Sage’s Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions and Real Estate practice areas were […]
Michael S. Wrona recently obtained a defense verdict in an action arising out the alleged rendering of preservation services to a premises in delinquency. In Malick v. J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, 2016 WL 2858772 (D.Conn. May 16, 2016), the Court (Bryant, J.) entered a defense verdict on all counts following a bench trial. The plaintiff, […]
Halloran & Sage is pleased to announce that six attorneys have been honored by New England’s Best Lawyers® in its 2016 edition. Recognized attorneys, from the Firm’s Hartford, New Haven, and New London offices, include: Henry M. Beck, Jr.: Corporate Governance Law, Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law Thomas W. Boyce, Jr.: […]
In Tirreno v. The Hartford, 161 Conn.App. 678 (2015), the Connecticut Appellate Court affirmed the trial court’s enforcement of binding mediation, finding it was a valid and enforceable means of resolving the dispute.
Daniel P. Scapellati recently obtained a defense verdict on behalf of an insurer. In Centurion Associates, Inc. v. Sentinel Insurance Company Ltd., NNH-CV13-6037641-S, the plaintiff sought to recover insurance proceeds for the alleged theft and/or unauthorized disposal of business personal property stored in 17 offsite trailers. The insurer challenged the sufficiency of the plaintiff’s evidence […]
Vincent Liberti, Jr. recently took part in the Connecticut Land Conservation Council’s record-breaking Connecticut Land Conservation Conference. Vincent presented “Estate Planning, Charitable Gift Annuities & Other Creative Financial Planning for Land Trusts” along with Tim Abbott, Drew M. T. Iacovazzi and Margaret E. St. John. Nearly 500 conservationists attended the annual event—which offered close to […]
Plaintiff was experiencing an MI (NSTEMI). She was taken to a local hospital where she had a successful cardiac catherization and stenting and she was discharged the following morning. A day later she was readmitted due to abdominal pain. She was diagnosed with a celiac artery dissection. She was treated conservatively and discharged only to […]
A child psychiatrist was dismissed from a multi-party United States District Court Suit when the court refused to exercise federal jurisdiction in a matter involving allegations that the doctor recommended and prescribed psych meds to a public school student in violation of school policy. The doctor was serving as a consultant to the school system […]
A hospice care provider and sixteen other parties were sued by the mother of a patient, claiming that she was forcibly removed from her terminally ill daughter’s bedside and hospitalized without legal justification. The mother’s forty-two-count complaint alleged causes of action for deprivation of her civil rights, breach of contract, negligence and intentional infliction of […]
Kevin J. Greene and Joseph Biraglia successfully defended a well-regarded Danbury area accounting practice and its managing partner in a contentious multi-million-dollar claim for breach of a limited liability partnership agreement, breach of fiduciary duty and dissolution brought by a former partner. Our client vehemently denied the plaintiff’s claims and filed counterclaims in accordance with […]