The Supreme Court held that the doctrine of governmental immunity applied to shield the defendants from liability for the alleged injuries of the plaintiff. The plaintiff acknowledged that the defendants' conduct was discretionary, so the former could prevail only if...
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Month: May 2010
Time Doesn’t Stop Running for Intentional Emotional Distress Claim
The existence of an original duty must be determined before applying the continuing course of conduct doctrine to toll the statute of limitations in a non-negligence cause of action for intentional infliction of emotional distress. In Watts v. Chittenden, 115 Conn....
Intervening Employer Gets His Money Back No Matter What
In a case of first impression, the Supreme Court held that the trial court properly reduced the amount of the jury award of noneconomic damages by the amount of payments the plaintiff's employer was obligated to pay him, despite the fact that the employer was paying...
It Was Wrong to Preclude Plaintiff’s Premises Security Expert
Returning to the Supreme Court for the second time, that court held that the plaintiff's premises security expert should not have been precluded from testifying in this case involving railroad security. Sullivan v. Metro-North Commuter Railroad, 292 Conn. 150 (2009)....
How Much Causation Evidence is Enough?
After a century of confusing, conflicting and ambiguous precedent, the Appellate Court tried to answer the question of how much evidence of causation is enough to take it out of the realm of speculation and conjecture. In Burton v. Stamford, 115 Conn. App. 47, cert....