Question 1

What personal injury case types do you cover in Connecticut?

Accepted Answer

We cover the full Connecticut personal injury spectrum: auto / car accident, truck and 18-wheeler, motorcycle, rideshare (Uber and Lyft), pedestrian and bicyclist, premises liability and slip and fall (big-box and grocery such as Walmart, Target, Costco, Stop & Shop, Big Y, Aldi, Trader Joe's, ShopRite, plus restaurant, hotel, parking lot, apartment complex, condominium common areas, and shopping-center files), dog bite (strict liability under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 22-357), wrongful death, product liability (Connecticut Product Liability Act exclusive remedy under § 52-572m), Dram Shop ($250K cap under § 30-102), and workplace and construction. Auto and trucking are the largest-volume categories, with premises and slip-and-fall close behind.

Question 2

How does Connecticut premises liability law work?

Accepted Answer

Connecticut still recognizes the traditional invitee / licensee / trespasser categories. Property owners owe invitees the highest duty: a duty to inspect, repair or safeguard, and warn of defects discoverable on reasonable inspection. Licensees are owed warning of known dangerous conditions the licensee is unlikely to discover. Trespassers are owed only the duty against intentional injury or trap-setting (with due care once presence is known). Under the 51% bar comparative fault rule (§ 52-572h), open-and-obvious is fault allocation rather than a categorical bar. Surveillance preservation, prior-complaint discovery, and incident-report status drive Connecticut slip-and-fall outcomes. Connecticut's recreational-use immunity under §§ 52-557f to 52-557i protects private landowners (but not municipalities) who allow free recreational use.

Question 3

How does the Connecticut strict-liability dog statute work?

Accepted Answer

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 22-357 imposes strict liability on dog owners or keepers for damage done by the dog to the body or property of any person. Defenses are limited: damage was caused while plaintiff was committing trespass or other tort, or was teasing, tormenting, or abusing the dog. Critically, the statute presumes that an injured minor under 7 was NOT trespassing, teasing, tormenting, or abusing the dog, shifting the burden to the owner/keeper to prove otherwise. Connecticut has no statutory PI noneconomic cap, so disfigurement and child-victim cases support upper-tier outcomes. The 2-year SOL under § 52-584 governs.

Question 4

How much do Connecticut premises liability and slip-and-fall leads cost?

Accepted Answer

Connecticut premises and slip-and-fall lead pricing tracks the Google Ads auction. Personal injury commercial-intent CPCs across Connecticut generally run $80 to $250, with the I-95 coastal corridor (Stamford, Bridgeport, New Haven) and Hartford at the top end and rural eastern Connecticut and the Litchfield Hills meaningfully lower. Our published Connecticut pricing is $125-$655 per exclusive lead by case type ($360 for car accident (MVA, including motorcycle and pedestrian), $540 for commercial MVA (trucking, rideshare, bus), $655 for wrongful death, $195 for premises liability, and $125+ for workers' compensation), flat and the same for every firm, with no minimums or contracts (see the pricing section above).

Question 5

What is the statute of limitations for Connecticut personal injury claims?

Accepted Answer

Two years from when the injury was first sustained or discovered (or in the exercise of reasonable care should have been discovered) under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 52-584, with a 3-year statute of repose from the date of the act or omission. The 3-year repose is an absolute outer limit. Wrongful death runs on a separate 2-year clock from death with a 5-year repose under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 52-555 (the § 52-555(b) exception waives the 5-year repose where the at-fault party has been convicted or found NGRI of certain serious crimes related to the death). Defective-highway claims against municipalities require 90-day written notice under § 13a-149 (jurisdictional bar; strictly construed). Claims against the State require permission to sue via the Office of the Claims Commissioner under § 4-160. Product-liability claims have a 3-year SOL and 10-year repose under § 52-577a as part of the Connecticut Product Liability Act.

Question 6

How does Connecticut's 51% bar comparative fault rule affect premises and PI cases?

Accepted Answer

Connecticut applies modified comparative fault under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 52-572h with a 51% bar. A plaintiff recovers if their fault is "not greater than" the combined fault of defendants (50% or less); barred at 51%+. Damages are reduced proportionally below the bar. The same rule governs premises, dog bite, product, and most negligence claims. Borderline-fault Connecticut PI leads (slip-and-fall with prior wet-floor warning posted, premises files where plaintiff partially ignored a marked hazard) are flagged for additional intake context and not auto-rejected.

Question 7

Does Connecticut cap PI noneconomic damages?

Accepted Answer

No. Connecticut has no statutory cap on noneconomic damages in either general PI or medical malpractice. This places Connecticut among the minority of US jurisdictions with no PI cap, alongside Washington, New York, Kentucky, Arizona, and a handful of others. Common-law punitive damages are limited to the cost of litigation, including reasonable attorney's fees less taxable costs, under Berry v. Loiseau, 223 Conn. 786 (1992) and Bodner v. United Servs. Auto. Ass'n, 222 Conn. 480, 492 (1992). Statutory regimes authorize different punitive measures: CUTPA (Conn. Gen. Stat. § 42-110g) permits punitives without the common-law limit; the Connecticut Product Liability Act allows enhanced damages under § 52-240b; the Dram Shop Act caps total recovery at $250,000.

Question 8

How does the Connecticut Product Liability Act work?

Accepted Answer

The Connecticut Product Liability Act (Conn. Gen. Stat. § 52-572m et seq.) creates the exclusive remedy against product sellers for harm caused by a defective product. The Act bars separate negligence, strict-liability, and warranty claims against the same product seller for the same conduct (CPLA replaces all). The statute of limitations is 3 years from the date of injury or discovery, with a 10-year statute of repose under § 52-577a. CUTPA claims may proceed alongside the CPLA in limited circumstances. The Act is one of the most consolidated product-liability regimes in the country and tightens pleading discipline at the outset of any product-defect case.

Question 9

How does the Connecticut Dram Shop Act work?

Accepted Answer

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 30-102 imposes strict liability against alcohol sellers who serve an intoxicated person whose subsequent acts cause injury. The total Dram Shop recovery is capped at $250,000 per incident regardless of the number of victims, which sharply limits the recovery vehicle on multi-victim impaired-driver files. Notice of intent to sue must be filed within 120 days (180 days for death or incapacity); suit must be filed within 1 year of injury. A negligence cause of action against sellers for serving adults aged 21 or older is barred by statute, leaving the Dram Shop Act as the typical exclusive recovery against the alcohol seller.

Question 10

Are your Connecticut leads pre-screened against the § 52-584 SOL and § 13a-149 notice?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Every Connecticut lead is screened for SOL position (with the 3-year repose tracked separately from the 2-year discovery clock), representation status, injury, and 51% bar comparative-fault sanity check. Premises and slip-and-fall leads include surface-condition context (water, wax, grease, ice, snow, debris, lighting, prior-complaint indicators). Defective-highway and municipal-vehicle leads are flagged for the § 13a-149 90-day notice window. State-defendant files are flagged for Office of the Claims Commissioner permission requirements. Product-liability leads are evaluated against the 3-year SOL and 10-year repose under the CPLA.

Question 11

Any contracts, minimums, or setup fees?

Accepted Answer

None. No monthly minimums, no subscriptions, no setup fees for standard onboarding. Pay per lead. Pause or resume anytime. Invalid leads are replaced under our standard policy.

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