Vocational & Rehabilitation Experts in Connecticut

The Superior Court is Connecticut's trial court, and it sits by judicial district: the Judicial Branch's directory lists thirteen judicial districts, and the Connecticut Judicial Directory's table of court districts by town assigns every town to a judicial district and to a geographical area court. For the venues on this site the table places Bridgeport in the Bridgeport Judicial District, whose courthouse is in Bridgeport; New Haven in the New Haven Judicial District, which the directory lists as New Haven-Meriden with courthouses in New Haven and Meriden; Stamford and Norwalk in the Stamford-Norwalk Judicial District, whose courthouse is in Stamford; Hartford and West Hartford in the Hartford Judicial District; Waterbury in the Waterbury Judicial District; Danbury in the Danbury Judicial District; and New Britain and Bristol in the New Britain Judicial District, the last four each with a courthouse in the city the district is named for. The Branch's page on the divisions of the Superior Court states that the court hears civil, criminal, family and juvenile matters, that civil jury and non-jury cases are usually heard in judicial district courthouses and that most family cases, divorce, child custody and child support among them, are heard there as well; the Probate Courts sit by probate district. Most appeals from the Superior Court go first to the Connecticut Appellate Court, which the Supreme Court's own overview names as Connecticut's intermediate court of appeals, and the Connecticut Supreme Court is the state's highest court, deciding issues of law rather than questions of fact; the Judicial Branch places both in Hartford, the state capital.

Federal civil actions are heard by the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, which sits in Bridgeport, Hartford and New Haven. Workers' compensation claims are heard by the Workers' Compensation Commission through its district offices: the Commission's directory lists eight district offices, in Hartford, Norwich, New Haven, Bridgeport, Waterbury, New Britain, Stamford and Middletown, and each office's own page lists the cities, towns and subdivisions it administers the workers' compensation system for. By those pages, claims arising in Bridgeport are heard through the 4th District Office in Bridgeport, claims arising in New Haven through the 3rd District Office in New Haven, claims arising in Stamford, Norwalk and Danbury through the 7th District Office in Stamford, claims arising in Hartford through the 1st District Office in Hartford, claims arising in Waterbury through the 5th District Office in Waterbury, and claims arising in New Britain, West Hartford and Bristol through the 6th District Office in New Britain; administrative law judges and Commission staff in the district offices administer mediations and informal, pre-formal and formal hearings in disputed cases. The Connecticut Bureau of Rehabilitation Services (BRS) is the state vocational rehabilitation agency.

Ten of this site's Connecticut city pages carry a wage and employment record for their own metropolitan area, each named as the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics series titles it: Bridgeport, Stamford, Norwalk and Danbury report the Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT area, New Haven the New Haven, CT area, Hartford, West Hartford and New Britain the Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT area, and Waterbury and Bristol the Waterbury-Shelton, CT area, while the pages of the remaining Connecticut cities report Connecticut's statewide figures. Wages come from that series and unemployment rates from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics series, both published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the analysis uses the data of the region where the claimant lives and works.

Plaintiff and defense counsel retain KWVRS for Connecticut matters, and each report is prepared to the disclosure requirements of the forum in which the matter is pending, whether a judicial district of the Superior Court, the federal court or a district office of the Workers' Compensation Commission. KWVRS is headquartered in Hackensack, New Jersey, and maintains a Richmond, Virginia office. Attorneys confirm the governing rule for their case.