Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder has provided legal representation for clients throughout Connecticut (CT) since its founding in 1936. Attorneys at Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder offer their services in several medical malpractice areas, including hospital acquired-infections stemming from a hospital's negligence.Hospitals are susceptible to infection outbreaks, as many immune-compromised patients are often in proximity to patients battling acute infections. More than 1.7 million hospital patients in the U.S. contract infections each year during their hospital stay. Nearly six percent of these hospital-acquired infections are fatal. Hospital administrators and their staff are responsible for mitigating the risk of hospital-acquired infections. Prevention is increasingly important due to the emergence of so-called superbugs, or bacterial strains that have grown resistant to standard courses of treatment. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention publishes an improvement framework known as the Targeted Assessment for Prevention (TAP). TAP helps healthcare providers pinpoint hospital units with high infection rates and focus improvement efforts on those sections. The federal government levies severe fines and penalties on hospitals that do not take adequate steps to lower their infection rates.
For more than seven decades, Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder, PC, has represented clients in a variety of legal matters through its offices in Danbury, Bridgeport, and New Haven, CT. The reputable CT-based Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder belongs to several professional organizations, including the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association (CTLA).Dedicated to preserving individual rights, CTLA provides members with numerous resources and mentoring and educational opportunities. Among the organization’s many offerings is its continuing legal education (CLE) programming. This programming is available through on-demand webinars, video and audio streams, and live seminars, and it ensures professionals remain apprised of developments in the field.The CTLA live seminars are considered to be the state’s best CLE offerings. They are taught by experts within the field and cover such topics as preparing cases for mediation, selecting juries, and ethics. Professionals can also advance their knowledge through CLE programming at CTLA Annual Meetings. These sessions are often recorded so members of the organization can view them later on as an online stream or webinar.Live seminars and their recordings meet the recommended requirements for CLE held by most states and are approved in the states of New York and Connecticut. Since 2017, lawyers in Connecticut are required to complete at least 12 credit hours of CLE each year and two hours of that must cover the topic of ethics.
From its offices in Bridgeport, Danbury, and New Haven, CT, Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder serves clients across New England. Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder CT has extensive experience trying class-action lawsuits, and has been successful in numerous cases against large corporations. Class action lawsuits, which group a number of plaintiffs against one party, have a number of advantages:1. They enable prosecution of entities that have caused harm that, taken on an individual basis, may not justify litigation, but when considered collectively represents substantial damage.2. They ensure that compensation is divided equally among plaintiffs. If brought individually, the first cases may leave a corporation bankrupt, and thereby unable to pay further damages.3. Combining similar claims increases the efficiency of the litigants as well as the courts, because the evidence and testimony only have to be submitted once.4. Class action rulings can change industry behavior. For example, the mandatory reporting laws requiring doctors to report suspected abuse were not consistently adhered to until a class action lawsuit was filed.
