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Connecticut's statute of limitations for personal injury claims, including medical malpractice claims, is two years from the date you sustained the injury or two years from the date when you discovered or should have discovered the injury by exercising reasonable care.

Connecticut General Statute § 52-584 establishes that an action to recover damages for injury to the person caused by medical malpractice must be brought within two years of the date that the injury is first sustained or should have been discovered.

Rule 4.2 of the Rules of Professional Conduct provides that ?[i]n representing a client, a lawyer shall not communicate about the subject of the representation with a party the lawyer knows to be represented by another lawyer in the matter, unless the lawyer has the consent of the other lawyer or is authorized by law ...

Rule 1.10 - Imputation of Conflicts of Interest: General Rule (a) While lawyers are associated in a firm, none of them shall knowingly represent a client when any one of them practicing alone would be prohibited from doing so by Rules 1.7, 1.8(c), or 1.9, unless the prohibition is based on a personal interest of the ...

The statute of limitations for medical malpractice is generally two years but there are exceptions. If you are dealing with a state institution or medical provider, then there is a one year notification period. Sometimes, there are reasonable extensions that you can get, if you file within a two year period.

Rule 8.4(7) defines ?professional misconduct? by a Connecticut attorney as including speech that the lawyer knows or reasonably should know ?is harassment or discrimination on the basis of? any of 15 listed characteristics?among them race, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and gender identity.