Attorney – Jeff Wisner

Jeff Wisner is a dual-degreed personal injury attorney and medical doctor who has dedicated his career to advocating for individuals catastrophically harmed by the negligence of others.

As the first student in the University of Connecticut’s history to earn both medical and legal degrees concurrently, Jeff brings a uniquely informed perspective to his legal practice. After graduation, he joined a leading law firm in Bridgeport, where he practiced as a trial attorney for over eight years. During his tenure, he played a key role on legal teams that secured landmark results—including a historic $73 million settlement for families affected by the Sandy Hook shooting, and a landmark case against a New Haven-based hospital system for the mass diversion of opioids at its reproductive endocrinology clinic.

Jeff’s practice centered on investigating and prosecuting medical malpractice claims. He reviewed more than 1,500 potential cases spanning nearly every medical specialty, helping recover hundreds of millions of dollars for injured clients. He personally oversaw the filing and developed the litigation strategy for cases involving the following areas of medicine:

• Anesthesiology: Improper postoperative management of a tracheostomy in a patient with head and neck cancer.
• Critical Care Medicine: Delayed diagnosis of arterial insufficiency, resulting in a below-the-knee amputation.
• Cardiology: Mismanagement of pericarditis, leading to congestive heart failure and death.
• Emergency Medicine: Failure to treat a DVT, resulting in a fatal pulmonary embolism.
• General Surgery: Missed small bowel obstruction in a patient with diverticulitis, resulting in death.
• Hematology: Inappropriate anticoagulation in a patient with liver disease, leading to fatal surgical bleeding.
• Internal Medicine: Negligent management of severe alcohol withdrawal, resulting in delirium tremens.
• Infectious Disease: Delayed treatment of bacterial sepsis, progressing to DIC and limb loss.
• Neurology: Mismanaged cavernous malformation rupture, resulting in Locked-In Syndrome.
• Neonatology: Perinatal negligence leading to hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy in a newborn.
• Orthopaedics: Missed diagnosis of spinal epidural abscess in a patient with bacterial endocarditis.
• Ophthalmology: Contaminated surgical equipment leading to postoperative endophthalmitis and blindness.
• Obstetrics/Gynecology: Mismanagement of preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome causing maternal death; failure to treat oligohydramnios leading to preventable stillbirth.
• Oncology: Delayed diagnosis and treatment of breast, colon, and prostate cancers.
• Pediatrics: Failure to identify and report medical child abuse (Munchausen-by-proxy), resulting in life-threatening harm.
• Psychiatry: Inadequate care of a patient in mental health crisis, resulting in suicide.
• Radiology: Missed meningioma diagnosis, causing optic nerve compression and partial blindness.

Jeff is driven by a deep commitment to helping families seek justice after devastating medical harm. He believes true accountability extends beyond financial compensation—it demands systemic change to prevent future tragedies. To advance these goals, Jeff serves on the Board of Governors for the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association (CTLA) and is an active member of the American Association for Justice (AAJ).