ACCORDING TO CHRISTIAN NOLAN OF THE CT LAW TRIBUNE:
"State grievance officials have escaped a lawsuit brought by a family accusing their former lawyers of collecting $4.3 million more in legal fees than they were entitled to in connection with a high-profile medical-malpractice settlement.
In 2011, a jury awarded $58.6 million to Cathy and Domenic D'Attilo and their son, Danny, for permanent brain injuries he sustained during his birth at Stamford Hospital.
The amount was a medical-malpractice record in Connecticut. But rather than embark on years of appeals, the family, through their lawyers, opted to settle with the hospital for $25 million..."
TAKE AWAY:
1. Attorney General George Jepsen fought against the rights of the people to have attorneys held to account;
2. Statewide Grievance has simply flipped off procedures in place to hold attorneys to account.
FOR MORE ON THIS STORY, SEE LINK:
http://www.ctlawtribune.com/id=1202763060280/Family-in-Record-MedMal-Case-Loses-Suit-Against-Ethics-Panel?mcode=0&curindex=0
Connecticut Constitution:
ReplyDeleteARTICLE SECOND.
OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF POWERS.
“ The powers of government shall be divided into three distinct departments, and each of them confided to a separate magistracy, to wit, those which are legislative, to one; those which are executive, to another; and those which are judicial, to another.”
How is it that the Attorney General, from the Executive Branch, represented the Statewide Grievance Committee, part of the Judicial Branch?