Partner Chuck Deluca was recently interviewed by Bottomline Technologies, a legal e-billing vendor, regarding how a best practices firm like RRD is dealing with the changes and challenges of providing legal services to an evolving risk industry.

Chuck's interview is featured in Bottomline's Litigation Management Report, which is published quarterly. This issue of the LMR can be viewed here.

RRD partner John F. Costa and associate Liam M. West recently prevailed on a motion to strike in favor of their client, a licensed clinical social worker.

On February 6, 2012, Partner Kevin Tepas obtained a defense verdict on behalf of his clients, a local gastroenterologist and his group, in a medical malpractice action in Stamford Superior Court. The plaintiffs claimed that the defendant physician failed to timely diagnose and remove a tumor in the patient’s cecum (part of the large intestine) and that because of this failure the plaintiff’s decedent lost an opportunity to successfully treat her colorectal cancer and ultimately died from that disease.

In a ruling released on February 17, 2012, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a dismissal of a product liability action that was obtained by RRD partner Rob Laney last year in the United States District Court. The plaintiff was involved in a serious one-car accident in which her car rolled over multiple times in I-95, ejecting her from the vehicle and causing her to sustain multiple, life-threatening injuries.

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Connecticut has adopted e-discovery rules which will take effect on January 1, 2012. Ryan Ryan Deluca LLP partner Chuck Deluca chaired the Discovery Subcommittee of the Civil Commission which drafted the Rules and their Commentary. These Rules were approved by the Civil Commission, the Rules Committee of the Superior Court and by all of the Superior Court Judges at their annual meeting in June 2011. The highlights of these Rules, which have been incorporated into the Connecticut Practice Book, are as follows:

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Two recent decisions from the Connecticut Supreme Court and Appellate Court have upheld judgments in favor of municipalities and local school boards based on the doctrine of governmental immunity. These cases discuss the doctrine of governmental immunity, codified in General Statutes §52-557n, and the application of the identifiable victim/imminent harm exception to that immunity in the context of school settings.

On Friday, December 16, 2011, partner Michael T. Ryan, Esq. and associate Matt A. Piatkowski, Esq. obtained a defendant’s verdict on behalf of their client in a traumatic brain injury case in Derby Superior Court.

Attorneys Noonan and Cannavino for the Defendant

Attorneys James J. Noonan and John W. Cannavino, Jr., obtained summary judgment on behalf of a large scale snow plowing operation. The snow plow operator had been hired to perform services at a large apartment complex in New London, Connecticut. The decedent, a tenant at the complex, slipped and fell while exiting his vehicle, breaking his hip. The decedent subsequently passed from unrelated conditions.