Connecticut Personal Injury Notice Laws

It’s critical to be aware of notice requirements in personal injury cases in Connecticut. Miss a deadline, and the case is finished. Learn about Notice Requirements in municipal, dram shop, claims against the state, housing authorities, and defective highways.

Thoughts On “The Bysiewicz Bill”

The Courant’s Daniela Altimari is reporting that the Judiciary Committee is going to take up a bill that would alter the requirements to serve as attorney general. Last year, in Bysiewicz v. DiNardo the Connecticut Supreme Court found that a candidate for attorney general must have 10 years of practice with at least some of it being litigation and perhaps trial practice.

The Court left open the question of how much experience was necessary and just concluded that Bysiewicz who admitted to having no litigation experience did not meet the statutory requirements.  Thus, the Court provided little guidance to anyone seeking the office in the future just how much experience one needed to qualify.

This inevitably leads to wasteful and stupid litigation. See Dean v. Jepsen.

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