Caddell & Chapman successfully represented the family of a young girl in a products liability lawsuit against an international electronics corporation. The lawsuit alleged that an electronic appliance failed and caused a house fire. The fire had started in a children’s bedroom, and a young girl sleeping on a top bunk received terrible second and third degree burn injuries to roughly one-third of her body. The product manufacturer agreed that the fire began in the …
Michael Caddell and Cynthia Chapman successfully concluded their representation of clients from the Dominican Republic in claims against American Airlines and Airbus. The litigation arose from the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 which occurred on November 12, 2001 and resulted in the deaths of 265 people.…
The management company for Hotel Icon sued the owners of the hotel for a substantial sum of money for breach of the management agreement. Caddell & Chapman took the case on a “reverse” contingent fee basis, meaning its fee was to be calculated on a percentage of the amount sought by the management company in the lawsuit that the owners did not have to pay at the end of the lawsuit. The case was settled …
In bankruptcy court and federal district court in the District of Connecticut, Caddell & Chapman is pursuing legal malpractice and fiduciary-duty claims on behalf of a debtor against the debtor’s former counsel, one of the world’s largest law firms. The debtor owned 28 acres of industrial property in the Bronx, New York ideally‑suited to house a large power plant. The debtor alleges that its former counsel – due to negligence and conflicts with more prominent …