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Ms. Lagnese is one of the founding principals of Danaher, Lagnese & Sacco, P.C. She serves as co-managing principal of the firm and head of the Medical Malpractice Defense Unit. Her practice concentration is complex civil litigation, principally high exposure medical malpractice defense litigation. She has defended medical malpractice cases in all venues in Connecticut on behalf of physicians, hospitals, nursing homes, community health organizations, nursing staff contractors and mobile medical service providers. Her practice also includes representation of medical practitioners and institutions in administrative proceedings before the Connecticut Department of Public Health.
Ms. Lagnese has extensive trial experience in high exposure complex litigation. This includes medical malpractice cases including wrongful death and permanent injury due to surgical complications; hypoxic induced brain injury and Erb’s palsy in babies; delayed diagnosis of cancer and cardiovascular disease; permanent neurologic injury following general anesthesia; patient suicide in the psychiatric and primary care setting; catastrophic outcomes in the Emergency Department setting; and blindness following ophthalmologic treatment.
Ms. Lagnese has been an invited lecturer and Keynote Speaker to various local and regional medical societies, physician organizations and hospitals on topics such as: “Standard of Care in the Current Medico-Legal Environment,” “The Doctrine of Informed Consent,” “Failure to Diagnose Cancer,” “Physician Risk Avoidance Practices,” “Mitigating the Legal Consequences of Shoulder Dystocia & Brachial Plexus Injury,” “Documentation Imperatives for Medical Practitioners,” “Understanding the Litigation Process,” and “How to Defeat Malpractice Opportunists at Their Own Game.”
Publications
1. Connecticut Medical Malpractice Law (May, 2007)
co-authored with Calum Anderson and Frank Santoro
2. The Evolving Law of Informed Consent (CT Law Tribune, May 22, 2006)
3. Apportionment of Liability in Medical Malpractice Cases: Are the Principles of Tort Reform Getting Lost in the Nooks and Crannies of Practical Application (CT Law Tribune, March 18, 2000)
4. National Tort Reform - A Defense Perspective (CT Law Tribune, 1995)
5. The Vulnerability of the Bar Order in the Consolidated Breast Implant Multi-District Litigation Proceedings (Medical Legal Aspects of Breast Implants, November 30, 1994)
6. “Economic Aspects of Mesothelioma” (chapter in Malignant Mesothelioma, edited by Drs. Pass, Vogelzang and Carbone, ©2005)
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