Ms. Zovas is a founding partner at Strunk Dodge Aiken Zovas LLC, a firm specializing in workers’ compensation defense. She represents municipalities, self-insurers, and insured employers before the Workers’ Compensation Commission. She has an “AV” preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has been named in New England Super Lawyers magazine. She holds leadership roles in the Hartford County Bar Association and is a J. Cooper Fellow of the Connecticut Bar Foundation.
Richard L. Aiken, Jr. is a partner at Strunk Dodge Aiken Zovas. He is a certified Workers’ Compensation Specialist. Attorney Aiken is the recipient of the Connecticut Bar Association 2022 Pomeranz-O’Brien Award. He is a past Chair of the Connecticut Bar Association Workers’ Compensation Section and serves on the Legal Advisory Committee. Attorney Aiken is included in Best Lawyers in America and is designated as a New England/Connecticut Super Lawyer.
Retired Chair of Connecticut Workers’ Compensation Commission.
Presently a Partner in firm engaged primarily in mediating Worker compensation cases.
Of Counsel to Morrissey Morrissey & Rydzik
Joseph J. Passaretti Jr. is a graduate of Rutgers University and Quinnipiac University School of Law. He is admitted to Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Attorney Passaretti is a Partner at the Montstream Law Group and has specialized in workers’ compensation defense since 1995. He has chaired the workers’ compensation section of the Connecticut Bar Association, and has been Editor-in-Chief of Compensation Quarterly. Attorney Passaretti has lectured for Lorman Education Services, NBI, Sterling and the State of Connecticut in the area of Workers’ Compensation practice and procedure and has been a Board Certified Workers’ Compensation Specialist since 2001.
Attorney Passaretti was named Best Lawyers® Best Lawyer of the Year in 2014 – Workers’ Compensation. In 2019, Attorney Passaretti was inducted into the College of Workers’ Compensation Lawyers®.
Attorney Passaretti is the Editor of Connecticut Workers’ Compensation After Reforms, Sixth Edition (2015), Centennial Edition (2012), and Fourth Edition (2010).