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BELLIVEAU v. STEVENSON

No. 1227, Docket 96-9180.

123 F.3d 107 (1997)

Joseph BELLIVEAU, Sr., and Rosemary Belliveau, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Christopher STEVENSON, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 12, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Williams, New Haven, CT, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Michael E. Riley, Hartford, CT (O'Keefe, Phelan & Jackson, Peter K. O'Keefe, on the brief, Hartford, CT), for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: VAN GRAAFEILAND, WALKER, and LEVAL, Circuit Judges.

WALKER, Circuit Judge:

The sole issue presented by this appeal is whether or not Connecticut law recognizes a parent's claim for postmortem loss of filial consortium resulting from the wrongful death of a child. For the following reasons, we agree with the district court that Connecticut law recognizes no such cause of action, and we affirm.

BACKGROUND

Joseph Belliveau, Jr. ("Joseph") committed suicide on January 5, 1994. At the time of his death...

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