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Marisse Merwin is a skilled workers compensation attorney with substantial experience advocating for the rights of injured Connecticut workers.
Raised by her grandmother, an ICU nurse with 50 years of experience treating the critically injured, Marisse became familiar with medical terms, types of injuries, and critical care procedures at an early age. Her grandmother’s stories about her patients fostered Marisse’s empathy for injured people, and provided her with an understanding of how an unexpected accident can change lives and also put families’ well-being at risk.
Before joining forces with Berman & Russo, attorney Merwin helped grow the workers compensation practice at one of CT’s largest personal injury firms. That success was due to her devoted and diligent advocacy on behalf of hundreds of seriously injured workers compensation and personal injury clients.
Marisse has chosen to specialize in getting justice for injured workers and uses her first-hand knowledge of insurance company tactics to form arguments against them. She is committed to providing the help and support her clients need as she builds their cases and secures their rightful benefits.
During law school, Marisse interned at a variety of personal injury law firms in Connecticut and Massachusetts. She became familiar with the intricacies of representing injury victims before the Connecticut State Court, the Massachusetts State Court, the Rhode Island State Court, and the Mohegan Sun Tribal Court. Marisse additionally served as the President of her law school’s Health Law Association, and was the recipient of the prestigious CALI Award in Higher Education Law and Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship.
Marisse’s friends and family joke that her upbringing makes her genetically predisposed to compassion. In combination with her inborn tenacity, these traits make Marisse a potent advocate for employees seeking to secure work accident compensation.
Marisse lives in Wethersfield, Connecticut with her husband (also an attorney), their two sons, two dogs, and two cats.
Raised by her grandmother, an ICU nurse with 50 years of experience treating the critically injured, Marisse became familiar with medical terms, types of injuries, and critical care procedures at an early age. Her grandmother’s stories about her patients fostered Marisse’s empathy for injured people, and provided her with an understanding of how an unexpected accident can change lives and also put families’ well-being at risk.
Before joining forces with Berman & Russo, attorney Merwin helped grow the workers compensation practice at one of CT’s largest personal injury firms. That success was due to her devoted and diligent advocacy on behalf of hundreds of seriously injured workers compensation and personal injury clients.
Marisse has chosen to specialize in getting justice for injured workers and uses her first-hand knowledge of insurance company tactics to form arguments against them. She is committed to providing the help and support her clients need as she builds their cases and secures their rightful benefits.
During law school, Marisse interned at a variety of personal injury law firms in Connecticut and Massachusetts. She became familiar with the intricacies of representing injury victims before the Connecticut State Court, the Massachusetts State Court, the Rhode Island State Court, and the Mohegan Sun Tribal Court. Marisse additionally served as the President of her law school’s Health Law Association, and was the recipient of the prestigious CALI Award in Higher Education Law and Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship.
Marisse’s friends and family joke that her upbringing makes her genetically predisposed to compassion. In combination with her inborn tenacity, these traits make Marisse a potent advocate for employees seeking to secure work accident compensation.
Marisse lives in Wethersfield, Connecticut with her husband (also an attorney), their two sons, two dogs, and two cats.