Colleen Vellturo (Of Counsel-Stamford, CT) and Stephen P. Brown (Partner-Stamford, CT) represented a Vermont-based attorney and firm that handled the sale of a Connecticut man’s second home in Vermont. The Appellate Court affirmed the trial court’s decision, which held that the Vermont-based attorney could not be brought into court in Connecticut because Connecticut’s long-arm statute could not provide personal jurisdiction over the Vermont defendants. The plaintiff, the girlfriend of the man whose property was sold, failed to demonstrate sufficient facts such that any of the sections of the long-arm statute could apply. Specifically, the Vermont firm did not transact business in Connecticut, enter into a contract in Connecticut, solicit business from Connecticut residents, derive substantial revenue from Connecticut, nor did they commit a tort in Connecticut. Accordingly, the Appellate Court affirmed the trial court’s dismissal of the action as to the Vermont attorneys.

Eugene Boulé (Partner-New York, NY) and Suzanne Swanson (Of Counsel, New York, NY) successfully defended one of New York's largest health care providers in a trial in Richmond County Supreme Court for alleged assault, battery, wrongful arrest, malicious prosecution and intentional infliction of emotional distress by the hospital’s security staff. After a trial that included testimony from eight current and former employees of our client, the plaintiff, the plaintiff's wife and a psychologist, the jury returned a unanimous defense verdict on six separate causes of action against the hospital and its staff. Plaintiff's father was a patient at the hospital and plaintiff visited him up to three times per day for several days preceding the incidents that led to a violent altercation between the plaintiff and security. Plaintiff claimed that a doctor intentionally stopped giving his father pain medication in retribution for the plaintiff unwittingly giving a sandwich to a patient who was scheduled to undergo surgery, leading to his distress and persistence in pursuing the hospital staff for treatment of his father. The plaintiff was banned from entering the hospital, which resulted in an altercation with security.

Special thanks to Daphney Lebrun who worked tirelessly in contacting and arranging meetings with more than 20 witnesses in the week prior to trial, and to Suzanne Swanson who did a masterful job in discovery, preparing the case for trial and providing critical support during the trial.