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The plaintiff banker, from Prospect, Connecticut, was rear ended by a drunk driver in Waterbury. The drunk driver had a blood alcohol reading three times the legal limit. The rear end motor vehicle collision resulted in personal injuries to the plaintiffs head, cervical spine and low back. The plaintiff reported immediate neck and back pain to the investigating police officer. The plaintiff ...
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The plaintiff, a resident of Southbury, was rear ended on Route 188 while stopped for a school bus by a Southbury owner/operator defendant. The negligent defendant failed to keep a proper lookout and failed to keep his automobile under proper control. The plaintiff, a Southbury Training School employee, suffered cervical strain, lumbar strain and positional vertigo. The plaintiff had difficulty ...
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The plaintiff, a Watertown, Connecticut resident, was a passenger in a motor vehicle operated by her son on Park Road in Waterbury, Connecticut. The defendant attempted to leave the parking lot of "The Hills" restaurant and drove into the plaintiff's proper lane of travel striking the automobile that the plaintiff passenger was in head on. The defendant was intoxicated with BAC test results which ...
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The plaintiff was seventeen years of age from Watertown, Connecticut. He was hit head on by a drunk driver who had been drinking at "The Hills" restaurant on Park Road in Waterbury, Connecticut. His frontal air bags to his mother's Honda Pilot were deployed. The defendant was a young woman from Wolcott, Connecticut who had been drinking at a Christmas party. She was operating a motor vehicle while ...
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The plaintiff, a health care professional, was a resident of Beacon Falls, Connecticut. She was attacked and bitten twice while jogging on her street by a neighbors' Dalmatian/Hound mix. The attack happened within her residential neighborhood in front of the defendant's residence. The injury resulted in puncture wounds leaving significant contour depression and reduced pigmentation to the back of ...
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The claimant, from Watertown, Connecticut, injured his knee when he slipped on a wet floor at work while working for United Health Group. He required multiple arthroscopic knee surgeries, pain medication and Synvisc injections. He also had significant preexisting degeneration of the knee and prior knee surgery before his work related accident. His treating physician refused to rate him for ...
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The Rotatori Law Firm recently took on an injury case involving a slip and fall in front of a super market in Brookfield, CT. The plaintiff was a resident of Roxbury, Connecticut who attempted to go grocery shopping at the Brookfield, Connecticut Shop Rite Supermarket. Upon attempting to enter the store, the plaintiff fell on the sidewalk over a dislodged piece of wood that was supposedly at one ...
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The plaintiff was a medical records assistant who required a knee replacement. After hospitalization for her knee replacement surgery, the plaintiff required skilled nursing home care for rehabilitation. Upon admission to the nursing home, the plaintiff was left on the side of her bed and asked to sign some admissions papers. Immediately prior to nursing home admission, the plaintiff was medicated ...
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The claimant was a laborer who sustained an L3-L4 work related low back injury which required a lumbar fusion. Post-surgery, the claimant suffered continued significant low back and lower leg pain. He was assigned a 25% impairment to the lumbar spine by his treating physician one year post lumbar fusion. He was released by his neurosurgeon to return for light duty after his fusion. A Functional ...
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The Rotatori Law Firm took on a workers’ comp case for a claimant in Danbury, Connecticut. Our client worked at a company in Stamford and was injured while on the job. He suffered a fall at work that resulted in a complex tear of his lateral meniscus. Our client already suffered degenerative arthritis of the knee and eventually required a knee replacement due to the fall. Dr. Sanjay Gupta of the ...
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Workers’ comp cases can arise in nearly any work place. Even when it seems that your injuries are straightforward, securing compensation can be more difficult than you may expect. That is why it is best to be prepared just in case you have to undergo the process of trying to reach a settlement or bringing a lawsuit forward against and employer. At The Rotatori Law Firm, we cannot stress how ...
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A dram shop claim in Connecticut is a suit against a seller of alcohol to an intoxicated person where the purchaser in consequence of intoxication injures a third parties property or causes personal injury. The specific dram shop statute is Connecticut General Statute 30 - 102. The Connecticut legislature has by statute capped the exposure of a restaurant, bar or liquor establishment at ...
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The plaintiff, a physical therapist, was a resident of Watertown who was shopping within the Southbury Plaza in Southbury, Connecticut. While talking to a friend within a designated crossing area, she was struck on her right lower extremity by a car operated by a women from Heritage Village. She suffered neck pain, right arm pain, low back pain, headaches and bruising to her right lower extremity. ...
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AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT SETTLEMENT The plaintiff was a young women from Waterbury, Connecticut who was operating a Buick Century on Bunker Hill Road in Watertown, Connecticut when the defendant nurse, operating a Subaru Legacy, made a left hand turn into the plaintiff's lane of travel. The defendant failed to keep a proper lookout and failed to yield the right of way to a vehicle that was within an ...
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Positional Vertigo and Tinnitus Caused by a Double Impact Rear End Collision in Newtown, Connecticut. The plaintiff, a Southbury resident, was rear ended in Newtown, Connecticut on Sugar Street at the intersection of Sugar Street and Sugar Lane. The force of the collision caused the plaintiff to be pushed into a stationary motor vehicle. The defendant, a seventeen year old driving his mother's ...
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The plaintiff was a medical student at New York Medical College. She was a passenger in a motor vehicle owned and operated by her friend which was rear ended at the intersection of Scott Road and Plank Road in the City of Waterbury. The defendant, from Waterbury, told the investigating police officer that her shoe slipped off causing her to lose control of her motor vehicle. In essence, the ...
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A $35,000.00 uninsured motorist case was settled with Hanover Insurance Company on behalf of the plaintiff, an HVAC employee of Western Connecticut State University. The plaintiff, a resident of Wolcott, Connecticut, was driving east bound on Interstate 84 in Middlebury, Connecticut between exit 16 and 17, when the right rear wheel from a vehicle driven by a New Jersey defendant came off. The ...
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$100,000.00 Automobile policy tendered by Geico after a trial management conference before the Honorable Joseph Pellegrino for a rear end collision case filed in the Waterbury Superior Court. The plaintiff, from Terryville, Connecticut, was a culinary school graduate who operated a coffee house and catering business in Prospect, Connecticut. She was rear ended in Prospect, Connecticut on Scott ...
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Peter Rotatori, III
A $50,000.00 settlement was procured from the Hartford Insurance Company paid on behalf of a Woodbury defendant. The New Milford, Connecticut plaintiff was a mason by trade. He was traveling on Woodbury Road in Watertown, Connecticut when he was cut off by an elderly defendant making a left hand turn. The plaintiff suffered low back pain, radiating leg pain, a herniated disc at the L5-S1, ...
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The plaintiff was a hairdresser who lived in Bethlehem, Connecticut. She was stopped in traffic on Straits Turnpike in Watertown waiting to make a left hand turn when she was rear ended by an Oakville, Connecticut defendant. The plaintiff was hit by the defendant at a moderate rate of speed which resulted in modest vehicular crush damage. An independant witness who operated a motor vehicle in back ...
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The defendant was operating a Toyota Camary on Route 8 North in Seymour Connecticut during a rain storm. The defendant operator, from Waterbury, Connecticut, drove into a rain puddle which caused a spin out into a jersey barrier after the defendant's automobile hydroplaned. The defendant's rate of speed was arguably excessive for the weather conditions but it did rise to a level of recklessness. ...
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The plaintiff was a retired Ridgefield, Connecticut school janitor who lived in Woodbury, Connecticut. In May of 2011, after completing his shopping at the Southbury K-Mart Plaza, he tripped and fell over a wheel stop that abutted a sidewalk within the plaza parking lot. The net result was a fracture of his right femoral shaft. There were no witnesses. The plaintiff died of unrelated causes ...
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The plaintiff motor vehicle operator was an LPN from Wolcott, Connecticut. She was hit by a Propsect, Connecticut defendant on New Years day in 2012 in Prospect, Connecticut on a local road. The defendant crossed over the center of the roadway while driving around a blind corner. The defendant failed to keep a proper lookout, failed to keep his automobile under proper and reasonable control and ...
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Peter Rotatori, III
Legal success is measured by performing well on a consistent basis over a long period of time working with the factual parameters of your case. The Rotatori Law Firm in Stamford has again settled another rear end automobile collision case for a healthy robust dollar amount after filing suit in the Waterbury Superior Court. The plaintiff was a twenty-eight year old medical billing specialist from ...
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Peter Rotatori, III
Time and time again I see automobile insurance liability carriers make totally unreasonable settlement offers on reasonably strong liability cases prior to suit. This case recently resolved was no different. The plaintiff was a waitress from Naugatuck, Connecticut. She was side swiped by a young women who was driving under the influence of alcohol on Old Firehouse Road in Naugatuck, Connecticut. ...
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