Historic Results

Stamford, Connecticut, medical malpractice, business litigation, and catastrophic car accident lawyers

Silver Golub & Teitell "has earned some of the largest verdicts and settlements in state history" - Connecticut Law Tribune

A doctor failed to perform a timely c-section delivery of a baby despite obvious signs of fetal distress. The child suffered significant brain damage and will require 24-hour nursing care, including tube feeding, for the rest of his life. In this case, Silver Golub & Teitell obtained a jury verdict of $38.5 million - the largest jury verdict in a personal injury case in state history.
» SGT Secures Record-Setting $38.5 Million Jury Verdict To Help Seriously Injured Child, February, 2008. (PDF)

As lead counsel for 70 Connecticut municipalities, Silver Golub & Teitell secured a judgment of $35.8 million against the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority to recover past overcharges imposed as a result of an illegal unsecured loan to Enron Corporation. CRRA was also enjoined from imposing more than $6.9 million in additional overcharges.

As lead private counsel for the state of Connecticut in its historic action against the tobacco industry, Silver Golub & Teitell, LLP played a leading role in the nationwide litigation that secured a recovery for Connecticut totaling almost $4 Billion.

A corporate whistleblower is represented in his claim under the Federal False Claims Act against United Technologies, resulting in the largest award at the time for recovered by the United States government under the Act. Settlement of $150 Million.

Written up in the New England Journal of Medicine for the superb quality of the presentation of the case, Pisel vs. Stamford Hospital becomes the first verdict over $1 million in the State of Connecticut. The case also creates significant medical malpractice law in Connecticut that is still cited today, and sets safety standards for hospitalized psychiatric patients. Jury Verdict of $3.6 Million.

A 21-year-old man suffocates while sleeping in a bivy sack on a camping trip. The bivy sack, which resembles a sleeping bag, is dangerously designed to encourage the user to close it completely but, once closed, it poses a suffocation hazard. Settlement of $2 Million and bivy sack product is removed from sale throughout the world.

As lead counsel in what is believed to be the largest class action in Connecticut history, 40,000 current and former employees are successfully represented in their action against the Xerox Corporation for violations of ERISA pension laws.

A 50-year-old man dies after a dermatologist misdiagnosed a facial lesion as benign, despite a biopsy report indicating potential skin cancer. After a significant delay, the lesion is diagnosed as squamous cell carcinoma, which had fatally spread due to the delay in treatment. Jury Verdict of $5.1 Million. (At the time of the award, this was the highest medical malpractice jury verdict for wrongful death in state history.)

A 36-year-old father of two, recovering in the defendant hospital from an uncomplicated surgical procedure, suffered cardiac arrest due to the hospital's failure to provide proper post-operative care. As a result of the hospital's negligence, the plaintiff was rendered blind, unable to walk, and unable to speak clearly and has sustained memory loss and other cognitive injury. The litigation resulted in a $15 million settlement for the plaintiff, at the time the largest settlement ever of a personal injury claim in Connecticut.

Contact the Stamford, Connecticut, personal injury lawyers and civil litigation attorneys at Silver Golub & Teitell, LLP, for legal help with injury claims arising from car accidents, medical malpractice, fire and burn injuries, sexual abuse and assault due to negligent security, and business and employment law litigation.