By Karen L. Dowd
- Feb 5, 2018
Getting the plaintiff his day in court
In State v. Boykin, 179 Conn. App. 175 (2018), Horton, Dowd, Bartschi & Levesque represented the plaintiff who sought to reverse the dismissal of his defective highway personal injury action against the State. Specifically, the notice provided that the plaintiff was injured due to the negligence State of Connecticut Department of Transportation, who failed to place a pedestrian cross walk button at the intersection of East Main St, and I-95, Bridgeport, CT, failed to inspect
By Karen L. Dowd
- Feb 5, 2018
To Additur or Not to Additur
Every case is important, no matter how small. And the Appellate Court’s decision in Cusano v. Lajoie, 178 Conn. App. 605, (2017), makes clear that generally the jury’s award of damages should stand, even if the trial court would hold differently. In Cusano, an automobile accident case in which liability was uncontested, the jury awarded the plaintiff his medical expenses but neither lost wages nor noneconomic damages. The trial court instructed the jury properly that this w
