Connecticut Supreme Court: Asbestos Cases

Our case-law library holds 10 asbestos decisions from the Connecticut Supreme Court (1997–2020). Each links to our summary and the full opinion.

• State: Connecticut
• Kind of court: State supreme court

Decisions

• Dougan v. Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (2020). The Connecticut Supreme Court affirmed summary judgment for Sikorsky and Carrier because the four plaintiffs offered no expert opinion that medical monitoring was reasonably necessary for each of them.
• Dougan v. Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. (2019). The Connecticut Supreme Court affirmed summary judgment for Sikorsky Aircraft and Carrier against the four plaintiffs' medical monitoring claims, because they offered no expert evidence that monitoring was reasonably necessary for them.
• RT Vanderbilt Company, Inc. v. Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company (2019). The Connecticut Supreme Court affirmed the Appellate Court's judgment, which upheld the trial court's continuous trigger and unavailability-of-insurance rulings and the pollution exclusion ruling, and held that the occupational disease exclusions bar coverage for claims by nonemployees as well as employees, a result favoring the secondary insurers over Vanderbilt on that exclusion.
• Bagley v. Adel Wiggins Group (2017). The Connecticut Supreme Court reversed the jury verdict for the plaintiff and remanded with direction to grant Wyeth Holdings Corporation's motion to set aside the verdict and for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, so Wyeth won and the Bagley plaintiff lost.
• Estate OF Rock v. University of Connecticut (2016). The Connecticut Supreme Court reversed in part the Compensation Review Board's decision, holding the decedent's estate had no standing to pursue any workers' compensation benefits, and remanded with direction to dismiss the estate's claims, so the University of Connecticut prevailed.
• Deschenes v. Transco, Inc. (2008). The Connecticut Supreme Court reversed the compensation review board's decision, which had upheld full permanent partial disability benefits for the plaintiff against employers Reed and AC & S, and remanded for further fact-finding on apportionment.
• Deschenes v. Transco, Inc. (2007). The Connecticut Supreme Court reversed the compensation review board's decision affirming full benefits to George Deschenes, a ruling that favored the employers Reed and AC & S on the legal standard, and remanded for further fact-finding on whether his benefits should be reduced.
• Lafayette v. General Dynamics Corp. (2001). The Connecticut Supreme Court reversed the workers' compensation review board and held that collateral estoppel barred Electric Boat from relitigating causation of the decedent's death, so the widow Kathryn Lafayette prevailed and the case was remanded to the commissioner.
• Estate OF Frederick v. General Dynamics Corp. (1997). The Connecticut Supreme Court reversed the Appellate Court and remanded so benefits would be awarded to the decedent's estate and dependent widow, ruling against Electric Boat/General Dynamics and its insurer.
• Green v. General Dynamics Corp. (1997). The Connecticut Supreme Court reversed the Appellate Court, which had denied the widow's claim, and remanded so the commissioner could calculate her weekly death benefits under § 31-310c; the widow, Celestina Green, won against Electric Boat and its insurers.