In 2005, Middletown High School student Jasmon Vereen was injured while roughhousing in a locker room at the school. He cut his arm on a locker he claimed was damaged. His family filed a lawsuit and a jury awarded a $30,000 plaintiff’s verdict. Because Vereen was found 33 percent to blame, his share would be $20,100.
But what appeared to be a small potatoes personal injury case has turned into a long-running legal battle which recently resulted in an Appellate Court decision that, at least one lawyer says, seems to muddle Connecticut law regarding municipal liability.
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