RisCassi & Davis
About the firm
RisCassi & Davis, P.C. is a Connecticut personal injury firm founded in 1955 by Leon RisCassi and William Davis. For more than 70 years, the firm has represented injured clients across the state in cases involving medical malpractice, motor vehicle accidents, defective products, and other serious personal injury matters, recovering hundreds of millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements.
Notable results
A Hartford jury returned a $7.25 million verdict for the estate of Daniel DiNardi, a Connecticut DOT supervisor fatally struck by a tractor-trailer while working on the shoulder of Route 8 northbound near Waterbury.
RisCassi and Davis attorneys secured a $6.5 million settlement for students hurt when a school bus plunged down a 20-foot I-84 embankment, killing a 16-year-old Rocky Hill boy on his way to a robotics competition.
Michael Jainchill of RisCassi & Davis secured a $3.8 million settlement for the adult children of Janet Pulver, a 66-year-old Avon grandmother killed when a speeding driver crossed the center line and struck her car head-on in Farmington, Connecticut.
A Hartford Superior Court jury returned a $3,476,025 verdict in September 2014 for motorcyclist Matthew Karotkin, who suffered skull fractures and a lung injury when a UPS driver cut left across his path at a Windsor, Connecticut intersection.
A Waterbury jury returned a $2 million verdict in November 2024 for construction laborer Keven Shepard, who was electrocuted when an excavator struck an Eversource power line marked nearly eight feet from its actual underground position.
A Hartford jury awarded a Farmington man $707,149 in September 2021 after a two-vehicle collision left him with chronic back injuries and a torn rotator cuff, exceeding the amount plaintiff's counsel had requested by $32,000.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
