Jason E. Tremont

Tremont Sheldon P.C. 64 Lyon Ter Bridgeport, CT 06604-4022 Practice Area(s): Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice call (203) 335-5145 email jtremont@tremontsheldon.com visit website

Biographical Information

Jason E. Tremont litigates all types of personal injury claims including sexual abuse of children, nursing home neglect and elder abuse, medical malpractice, auto accident cases, as well as those involving wrongful death, police chases, dog bites, and burn injuries.

Admission Dates & Jurisdictions

1993, Connecticut

Education

University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland
- J.D. cum laude
Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
- B.A.
- Honors: Studied Abroad in Bologna, Italy

Honors & Awards

The Best Lawyers in America®
Connecticut Super Lawyers®
AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
One of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Connecticut by The National Trial Lawyers

Professional Associations

Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association: Executive Committee, Medical Malpractice Committee, Member
Greater Bridgeport Bar Association, Member
American Association for Justice, Member

Representative Cases

Over $60 Million Collected for Childhood Victims of Sexual Abuse

To date, Tremont Sheldon Robinson Mahoney has represented well over 100 victims of childhood sexual abuse against area dioceses. In August 1999, a claim that occurs on Bishop Egan’s watch is brought against the Diocese of Bridgeport and Bishop Egan, involving the offenses of another priest. Cardinal Egan is deposed twice in connection with these claims. In March of 2001, Tremont Sheldon Robinson Mahoney reaches a confidential global settlement with the Diocese of Bridgeport and its predecessor bishop, Cardinal Edward Egan. In October of 2003, Tremont Sheldon Robinson Mahoney reaches a 21 million dollar global settlement with the Diocese of Bridgeport on behalf of another group of victims. In October of 2005, Tremont Sheldon Robinson Mahoney reaches its first global settlement with the Archdiocese of Hartford. This is a 22 million dollar settlement where Tremont Sheldon Robinson Mahoney represents 15 of the 43 victims. To date, Tremont Sheldon Robinson Mahoney has collected approximately 60 million dollars on behalf of victims of child molestation.In its initial response, the Diocese of Bridgeport files gag orders in court preventing public access to information relating to the sexual abuses by its priests. Attorneys for the Diocese threaten Attorney T. Paul Tremont regarding the claims that are being made and, at that time, the community as a whole is not ready to accept them. This skepticism changes dramatically over the next several years as additional survivors of childhood clergy sex abuse come forward.From the beginning, Tremont Sheldon Robinson Mahoney claims that there is an ongoing cover-up regarding clergy sex abuse in this Diocese. Instead of removing the perpetrator from the priesthood, he would be summarily transferred to another parish. Tremont Sheldon Robinson Mahoney believes that the Diocese of Bridgeport, including Cardinal Egan, allowed known sex abusers to continue on as active priests, enabling these offenders to have contact with children.All of the global settlements are reached following lengthy mediations where United States Magistrate Judge William I. Garfinkel of the United States District Court agrees to serve as the mediator.During this time, attorneys at Tremont Sheldon Robinson Mahoney and several of their clients travel to Hartford to persuade Connecticut legislators to extend the statute of limitations. In May of 2002, the legislators agree and give victims until their 48th birthday in which to file civil claims. Tremont Sheldon Robinson Mahoney is also one of the first firms in the state to establish a comprehensive website where it carefully catalogs complaints against priests and the parishes with which they were affiliated.

“We have given victims a voice and in doing so we can help change the behavior of the Church and finally force religious organizations to acknowledge responsibility for the past,” says Attorney Jason Tremont.

The effect of being sexually exploited, abused, or assaulted as a child will leave permanent scars on all of these clients. However, we are confident that in coming forward and speaking out about the terrible things that happened to them as children, they have undoubtedly raised the public’s awareness of these abuses, resulting in the formation and implementation of sexual abuse prevention policies. Hopefully, vigilant enforcement of these policies will prevent future assaults upon children.

Tremont Sheldon Robinson Mahoney continues to fight for sexual abuse victims currently representing numerous victims abused as minors by teachers or coaches at public, private, and parochial schools throughout the state of Connecticut as well as by clergy at religious institutions and doctors and medical professionals at medical facilities.

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