Published July 29. 2014 4:57PM Updated July 30. 2014 1:48AM By Karen Florin The state Supreme Court has upheld a 2012 jury finding that Bank of America’s negligence enabled a former St. Bernard School employee to embezzle more than $800,000 from the school between 2002 and 2006. In rejecting the bank’s appeal, the Supreme Court, in […]

Published December 22. 2012 4:00AM By Brian Hallenbeck The state Supreme Court has upheld a 2012 jury finding that Bank of America’s negligence enabled a former St. Bernard School employee to embezzle more than $800,000 from the school between 2002 and 2006. In rejecting the bank’s appeal, the Supreme Court, in an advance release opinion […]

Nine years ago, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that a ski resort couldn’t limit its liability through contractual clauses. Now the court has to decide if the banking industry can be permitted to do what the winter recreational industry cannot.  

Are punitive damages available to plaintiffs who prove willful employment discrimination under the Connecticut Fair Employment Practices Act, Conn. Gen. Stat. 46a-60 et seq.? That question is currently before the Appellate Court in Tomick v. United Parcel Service, AC 35896.  

Michael Tomick v. United Parcel Service, et al: A Superior Court judge has eliminated $500,000 in punitive damages from a verdict awarded to a United Parcel Service worker who claimed that the courier company had wrongly fired him.