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)....
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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....
Circumstantial Evidence May Be More Certain, Satisfying and Persuasive
In a recent Apellate Court victory by this office, the court in Curran v. Kroll, 118 Conn. App. 401 (2009) (December 15, 2002; Flynn, C. J.; Trial Court - Berger, J.), the Appellate Court reaffirmed the importance of circumstantial evidence and reversed the directed...
High Court to Decide if Expert’s Outburst was Proper
In Pin v. Kramer, 119 Conn. App. 33 (2010), as reported here, the Appellate Court held that it was an abuse of discretion for the trial court to fail to give a curative instruction following the defense expert's rant about the need to practice defensive medicine to...