Christopher Meisenkothen - New Haven, CT

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, Connecticut, 1999
    J.D.

• Non Legal Education

  • University of Connecticut, 1996
    B.A.
    Honors: Distinction in History
    Major: History
    Major: Sociology

Current Employment Position(s)

• Partner

Classes and Seminars

• June 2016 – Sterling Education Services, Inc., FUNDAMENTALS OF WORKERS’ COMPENSATION, Bridgeport, CT – Occupational Disease Claims
  
• May 2016 – PLAINTIFFS ASBESTOS LITIGATION SEMINAR, Las Vegas, NV – Neighborhood/Environmental Exposure Cases
  
• January 2016 – American Bar Association Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section’s Product Liability Committee, WEBINAR – CURRENT ISSUES IN ASBESTOS LITIGATION-MESOTHELIOMA: A CAUSATION DEBATE – “Low Dose” Exposures as a Cause of Mesothelioma
  
• June 2015 – Sterling Education Services, Inc., WORKERS’ COMPENSATION LAW & PRACTICE, Bridgeport, CT – Handling Occupational Disease Claims
  
• September 2014 – Massachusetts General Hospital, CURRENT CONCEPTS AND CONTROVERSIES IN ASBESTOS-RELATED DISEASES, Boston, MA – Litigating asbestos-related lung cancer (for plaintiffs)
  
• March 2014 – Sterling Education Services, Inc., ADVANCED WORKERS’ COMPENSATION SEMINAR, New Haven CT – Occupational Disease Claims
  
• December 2012 – Sterling Education Services, Inc., ADVANCED WORKERS’ COMPENSATION SEMINAR, Hartford, CT – Handling an Occupational Disease Claim from Start to Finish
  
• December 2012 – Perrin Conferences, LITIGATING ASBESTOS CASES IN TODAY’S ENVIRONMENT, New York, NY – Tri-State Litigation: An Update on Emerging Trends in the New Jersey, Connecticut and Upstate New York Asbestos Dockets
  
• September 2012 – Sterling Education Services, Inc., ADVANCED WORKERS’ COMPENSATION – Occupational Disease/Standard of Causation and Third-Party Issues
  
• June 2012 – HB Litigation Conferences, NORTHEAST ASBESTOS LITIGATORS & JUDGES FORUM, New York, NY – Update On Conneticut Asbestos Litigation
  
• April 2012 – Sterling Education Services, Inc., ADVANCED WORKERS’ COMPENSATION SEMINAR, Hartford, CT – Occupational Disease/Standard of Causation and Third-Party Liens
  
• December 20, 2011 – Sterling Education Services, Inc., ADVANCED WORKERS’ COMPENSATION SEMINAR, Hartford, CT - Occupational Disease/Standard of Causation and Third-Party Liens
  
• April 2011 – Sterling Education Services, Inc., ADVANCED WORKERS’ COMPENSATION SEMINAR, Bridgeport, CT – Occupational Disease and the Standard of Causation
  
• May 2010 – PLAINTIFFS ASBESTOS LITIGATION SEMINAR, Las Vegas, NV – Peritoneal Mesothelioma: An Update
  
• November 10, 2009 – Sterling Education Services, Inc., ADVANCED WORKERS’ COMPENSATION SEMINAR, Hartford, CT, – Occupational Disease and the Standard of Causation
  
• February 22, 2005 – Sterling Education Services, Inc., FUNDAMENTALS OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION SEMINAR – Occupational Disease Claims

Pro Bono Activities

• U.S. counsel for AFeVA, an association of Italian asbestos victims and family members from Casale Monferrato, Italy.

Published Works

Articles

• C. Meisenkothen. Underestimation of Chrysotile Health Risk due to Under-ascertainment of Mesothelioma: Evidence from a Century of Connecticut’s Experience with the “Magic Mineral”, NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, Volume 34(4), 2025
  
• Finkelstein MM, Meisenkothen C. Malignant Mesothelioma Among Employees of a Connecticut Factory That Manufacturered Friction Materials Using Chrysotile Asbestos: An Update. ANN WORK EXP HEALTH (2019): 1-4
  
• C. Meisenkothen. Malignant mesothelioma in a motor vehicle mechanic: Case report and review of the literature. NEW SOLUTIONS 2016 Jun 20: 1-19 (epub ahead of print)
  
• C. Meisenkothen. The four most pernicious myths in asbestos litigation: Part II: Safe thresholds for exposure and Tyndall lighting as junk science. NEW SOLUTIONS 24(1) (2014): 27-55
  
• C. Meisenkothen. The four most pernicious myths in asbestos litigation: Part I: Safe chrysotile and idiopathic mesothelioma. NEW SOLUTIONS 24(1) (2014): 1-26
  
• C. Meisenkothen. Malignant mesothelioma, airborne asbestos, and the need for accuracy in chrysotile risk assessments. NEW SOLUTIONS 23(2) (2013): 389-405
• Meisenkothen C, Finkelstein MM. Asbestos exposure and malignant mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis testis: Case series and review of the literature. OA CASE REPORTS 2013 Feb 28;2(2):17
• Murray M. Finkelstein & Christopher Meisenkothen, Malignant Mesothelioma Among Employees of a Connecticut Factory that Manufactured Friction Materials Using Chrysotile Asbestos, ANN. OCCUP. HYG. (2010) 54(6): 692-696
• C. Meisenkothen. A Shifting Paradigm? Deschenes v. Transco and the Precarious New Landscape of Concurrently Developing Disease in Connecticut’s Workers’ Compensation Jurisprudence, 84 CONN. BAR J. 339 (2010)
• When Three’s a Crowd: Kyrtatas, Malerba and the Connecticut Products Liability Act. The Confusing Interplay of Cross-Claims, Third-Party Impleader, Contribution and Indemnification in Product Liability Claims, 27 QUINNIPIAC L. REV. 881 (2009)
• Lien On Me: When Do Employers’ Liens Survive Under § 31-293(a)?, 19 COMPENSATION QUARTERLY 1 (2009)
• To Bar or Not to Bar, That is the Question: Does the Exclusivity Provision of the Connecticut Products Liability Act Bar Any and All Claims Under the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act?, 22 QUINNIPIAC L. REV. 671 (2004)

Bar Admissions

• Connecticut, 1999
• U.S. District Court District of Connecticut, 1999
• New York, 2000
• Maine, 2000
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court Eastern District of Texas
• Massachusetts, 2005
• Georgia, 2001
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas
• U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit

Other Affiliations

• Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association (Member)
• American Association for Justice (Member)
• American Bar Association (Member)
• Connecticut Bar Association (Member)