Stewart M. Casper

Mr. Casper is a Past President of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association (CTLA) and he has served on the CTLA Board of Governors since 1987. He serves on CTLA's, Legislative, Amicus Curiae, Medical Malpractice, Public Relations, and Fund Raising committees and he served on every Executive Committee of CTLA from 1990 - 2010. In addition he served as an elected member of the Board of Governors of the American Association of Justice (“AAJ” formerly known as “ATLA”) from 2006-2015. From 1999 to 2006 he was one of Connecticut’s two State Delegates to AAJ. He is a former member of the Motor Vehicle Automobile Insurance Coordination Committee and the Insurance Oversight Committee (Co-Chairperson) of AAJ. He served on AAJ's Public Affairs Committee and National Finance Council from 2006-2015. He is a member of AAJ’s Professional Liability Section and in 2010 he was the Chairperson of AAJ's Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group. From 2005 -10 he was the Editor-in-Chief of the "Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group Newsletter." He is a member of the Brain Injury Alliance of Connecticut (formerly the Brain Injury Association of Connecticut), the Brain Injury Association of America, the American Board of Trial Advocates and the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. He also serves on the Legal Advisory Board of the Sarah Jane Brain Foundation. Casper is a nationally recognized lecturer on traumatic brain injury and trial practice and he is a Co-Chair of the annual Legal Issues in Brain Injury program for the North American Brain Injury Society.

Classes/Seminars Taught:

• Uninsured/Underinsured Motorist Cases – Determining Coverage, Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, 1985 – 1990

  The Million Dollar Verdict Theory & Theme in the Age of Tort Reform, Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, 1988

• Investigation for Auto and Premises Liability Cases, Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, 1990

• Municipal Liability vs. Immunity Under The Tort Reform Act, Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, 1991

• Conflicts of Law Issues in Uninsured & Underinsured Motorist Cases, Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, 1991

• Summation – The Finishing Touch, Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, 1991

• Automobile Insurance Reform Act of 1993, Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, 1993

• Bad Faith, No Faith or Incompetence – Claims Against Insurance Companies and Independent Agents, Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, 1994

• Consumer Remedies for Inadequate Insurance Coverage – Suing The Insurance Agent, American Association for Justice, 1995

• Looking Fraudulent Surveillance in the Eye, American Association for Justice, 1996

• Cross Examination of the Defense Medical Expert, Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, 1998

• The Conundrum of Pre-existing Injuries, Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, 2002

• Proving and Winning the Traumatic Brain Injury Case, American Association for Justice, 2006

• The Selection and Use of Experts in the Traumatic Brain Injury Case, Association of Trial Lawyers of America – New Jersey, 2006

• Proving the Injury in the Traumatic Brain Injury Case, Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, 2006

• Cross-Examination of the Defense Expert in a Traumatic Brain Injury Case – No Perry Mason Moments, American Association of Justice, 2008

• Misclassification of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, North American Brain Injury Society, 2010

• Debunking the Myths of TBI, North American Brain Injury Society, 2011

• Using Depositions to Undermine TBI Myths, North American Brain Injury Society, 2012

• 9 Myths of Traumatic Brain Injury, Iowa Association for Justice, 2012

• What You Don’t Know About Brain Injury Experts Can Hurt, Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, 2013

• Demystifying the Myths of Traumatic Brain Injury, North American Brain Injury Society, 2014

• Strategies for Diffusion Tensor Imaging & Volumetric Analysis in Pediatric TBI Litigation, American Association for Justice, 2014

• Proving TBI with Demonstrative Evidence, North American Brain Injury Society, 2015

• The Progressive Injury Cascade of Traumatic Brain Injury, North American Brain Injury Society, 2016

• Evolving Signs and Symptoms of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, American Association for Justice, 2016

• Unpacking the Malingering Defense, North American Brain Injury Society, New Orleans, 2017

  • Admissibility of Low Impact Photographs and Neuropsychological Tests, American Association for Justice, NYC, 2017
  • The Sequelae of Traumatic Brain Injury: The Biomechanics of Trauma & The Changes that Follow, American Association for Justice, 2017
  • Broken Connections & Brain Networks – A Different Paradigm, North American Brain Injury Society, Houston, 2018
  • How to Tap into the Literature Goldmine and Use It to Defeat Defense Experts, Legal Latitudes, Nashville, TN 2018
  • Mining the Traumatic Brain Injury Literature, American Association for Justice, Las Vegas, 2019
  • Misclassification of Traumatic Brain Injury, The Pendulum is Swinging Back, North American Brain Injury Society, Toronto, 2019
  • Litigating Concussion Cases: Science vs. Money, Michigan Association for Justice, 2019
  • Make the Defense Talk about the Science, North American Brain Injury Society, New Orleans, 2020
  • Cross-Examination of the Defense Neurologist, North American Brain Injury Society, New Orleans, 2020
  • Banking on Science, Brain Injury Association of California-TBI Med Legal Webinar Series (virtual), 2020
  • Essential Science-Based Literature in TBI Litigation, American Association for Justice (virtual), 2020
  • Harnessing Brain Injury Science for Cross-Examination, North Carolina Association for Justice (virtual), 2020
  • Mild TBI Outcomes, North American Brain Injury Society (virtual), 2021
  • The Cascade Following Traumatic Brain Injury, Canadian Bar Association (virtual), 2021
  • The Scientific Bases for Poor Patient Outcomes in Concussion Cases, Texas Trial Lawyers Association, 2021
  • Cutting Edge Literature in Traumatic Brain Injury, American Association for Justice, Atlanta, GA 2022
  • Using the Scientific Literature as Kryptonite, Brain Injury Association of California – TBI Med Legal Webinar Series (virtual), 2022
  • Using the Scientific Literature as Kryptonite – Revisited, Brain Injury Association of California – TBI Med Legal Webinar Series, San Diego, CA 2023
  • Peer Review – The Sword and the Shield, American Association for Justice, Philadelphia, PA 2023
  • Topics on Head Injuries – Be the Best Advocate – American Association for Justice, Nashville, TN 2024
  • Fake Bad – Fake Science in Traumatic Brain Injury American Association for Justice 2024