The plaintiff brought a wrongful death suit against a homeowner in 2015, alleging that the plaintiff’s fourteen-year-old daughter attended a party at the defendant’s house where heroin was available and used by the plaintiff’s decedent. The homeowner’s insurer refused to…
Plaintiff claimed damages against the entities responsible for a New Haven abandoned power plant when he was severely injured after being electrocuted while attempting to enter a hole in the property’s fence. The defendants asserted that based on the recently-adopted…
A University of Connecticut student filed a claim against the state with the Office of the Claims Commissioner after he slipped and fell on ice in a university parking lot. After the claim was denied, the student obtained authorization from…
The plaintiff brought suit against the defendant based on injuries he sustained in a motor vehicle collision. In the first count of his complaint, plaintiff alleged his injuries were caused by the defendant’s negligence, and in the second count, plaintiff…
A towing company recovered and towed a vehicle at the request of the local police after it had been involved in an accident and subsequently submitted invoices to the vehicle owner’s insurer. Neither the insurer nor the owner paid the…
The defendant driver was operating a vehicle loaned to him by the defendant auto body shop that was painting his vehicle when he was involved in a motor vehicle accident. The plaintiff sued the driver for negligence and the auto…
A third party lawsuit was brought against a municipal employee for alleged misconduct during the course of the employee’s employment as former tax assessor for the City of New Haven. The city refused the employee’s request for provision of legal…
Plaintiff, who was injured in a motor vehicle accident, sued the other driver and two insurers, including the insurer of a corporate owner of a fleet of cars for uninsured/underinsured coverage. The plaintiff alleged that insurer’s policy provided $1 million…
The plaintiff slipped and fell on a sidewalk that was cracked and broken with grass growing through the cracks which hid the condition. The sidewalk was adjacent to the defendant’s property. The plaintiff sued alleging that the defendant was negligent…
The plaintiff was injured when she fell off of a tunnel that she was climbing on at her elementary school’s playground. She sued the town board of education and other school employees, alleging that the school employees were negligent in…