The Connecticut Appellate Court has unanimously overturned a lower court jury verdict originally awarding $12.2 million—but later reduced to $5.9 million by the judge—against East Haven in favor of a teenage pedestrian who was severely injured after he was struck by an alleged impaired driver who had been detained and then released by local police.
At the crux of East Haven’s appeal was governmental immunity and whether the town and then-Officer Jeffrey Strand were covered under the doctrine.
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