James G. Williams's Legal Cases (13)

Slip and fall accident

Joseph Pajor vs. Town of Wallingford

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OUTCOME: Plaintiff Verdict $700,000

Superior Court, Judicial District of New Haven, at New Haven NNH-CV-94-366807-S Joseph Pajor was a resident of the Town of Wallingford, Connecticut, and had proceeded to the Wallingford Town Hall in ... order to pay his electric bill. At the time of the accident it was snowing out and Mr. Pajor was walking on a public sidewalk toward the entrance to the Town Hall when he slipped and fell sustaining a trimalleolar fracture of his left ankle. The plaintiff maintained a claim against the Town of Wallingford under what's known as the Highway Defect Statute, to wit, Connecticut General Statutes, Section 13a-149. Mr. Pajor contended that he could not see an ice condition under the fresh blanket of snow and that it was the hidden ice that led to his fall. After deliberating on April 11, 1996, a jury returned a verdict in favor of Mr. Pajor in the amount of Seven Hundred Thousand ($700,000) Dollars.

Medical malpractice

Nancy Dembiczak vs. John Doe, M.D.

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OUTCOME: Plaintiff Verdict $1.8 Million

NNH-CV-91-0325659-S Superior Court, Judicial District of New Haven at New Haven Plaintiff's Attorney: James G. Williams, Esquire Facts: Jury awards woman patient $1.8 Million after a hysterectomy le ... ft one of her kidneys non-functioning. In September of 1998, a Superior Court jury awarded a Meriden woman $1 million in damages in a malpractice suit against her gynecological surgeon. The panel of four women and two men deliberated over three days before delivering the verdict, which is to exceed $1.8 million with added prejudgment interest. The lawsuit stemmed from a botched hysterectomy completed by a Wallingford gynecologist in March of 1990 that left the patient with a permanently non-functioning kidney. Plaintiff's counsel maintained that during the course of the hysterectomy and removal of the uterus, the doctor sutured the ureter, a tubular structure which allows urine to travel from the kidneys to the bladder. As a result of an obstruction of the ureter, her kidney becomes non-functioning. The woman had lived without knowing her kidney was non-functioning until it was picked up on an x-ray evaluation undertaken for unrelated medical reasons. Plaintiff's counsel reports that this happens frequently as people live their entire lives sometimes without recognizing obstruction to the genitor-urinary system. This is supported by statistical studies which often demonstrate women with non-functioning kidneys at autopsy. Gynecological surgeons need to identify ureters during the course of these procedures and make sure they are out of harms way before clamping suturing in the general area of the anatomy as the structures are extremely close to that portion of the anatomy which is being removed during the hysterectomy procedure. Defendant's experts denied responsibility for the loss maintaining that the plaintiff's kidney was not lost due to a surgical suturing but rather caused by a medical condition known as endometriosis within the ureter. The plaintiff's experts maintained that the area of the obstruction was exactly where the operative gynecologist would be tying off ligaments and that the nature of the obstruction was consistent with the type of obstruction one would see through a surgical error. Plaintiff's experts further maintained that these injuries can be avoided through proper inspection prior to closure and in this case should have been recognized during the immediate post operative period given the plaintiff's complaint of flank pain.

Car accident

John A. Radziunas vs. Harbor Health Services, Inc.

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OUTCOME: Defendant Verdict

NNH-CV-02-0462946-S Superior Court, Judicial District of New Haven at New Haven Plaintiff's Attorney: Mongillo, Insler & Virgulto Defendant's Attorney: James G. Williams, Esquire Facts: The plainti ... ff John A. Radziunas, age 51 and at the time of the accident, a lawyer and counsel for the plaintiff's office, was operating his vehicle easterly on West Main Street in Branford, Connecticut, on March 2, 2000. He claims he was rear ended by a motor vehicle operated by an employee of Harbor Health Services. That employee maintains that the impact collision was low and did not produce the significant injuries which the plaintiff was claiming. The plaintiff, Mr. Radziunas, maintains that he sustained an eleven (11%) percent permanent partial impairment to the cervical spine and was permanently limited in his ability to engage in his normal activities of daily living. He contended that he was unable to continue training dogs, an activity which he had done for the vast majority of his adult life. Attorney for the plaintiff, Thomas Virgulto, made pretrial demands which Attorney Williams thought were unreasonable. Acting on behalf of his client, Attorney Williams denied responsibility for any damages secondary to the accident maintaining that the impact could not possibly have produced the extent of injury and limitation maintained by the plaintiff. After trial, the jury agreed. After judgment, the case was withdrawn with no voluntary payment of any money damages being awarded to the plaintiff.

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