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ZARRELLI v. BARNUM FESTIVAL SOCIETY, INC.

(3239)

6 Conn. App. 322 (1986)

AUDREY ZARRELLI ET AL., CO-ADMINISTRATORS (ESTATE OF JANICE GOODWIN) v. THE BARNUM FESTIVAL SOCIETY, INC., ET AL.

Appellate Court of Connecticut.

Decision released February 25, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David S. Golub, with whom, on the brief, were Jay H. Sandak and Stanley A. Twardy, Jr., for the appellants (plaintiffs).

Patrick J. Flaherty, with whom were Louis B. Blumenfeld and, on the brief, Michael T. McInerny, for the appellee (named defendant).

Bruce M. Killion, for the appellee (defendant Connecticut National Bank).

HULL, SPALLONE and DALY, JS.

HULL, J.

This case raises, in stark relief, the question of the adequacy of a jury award of $65,000, before reduction for comparative negligence, for the negligently caused death of a twenty-two year old single, working female who was run over by the rear wheels of a flatbed trailer and died twenty-five days later from the injuries received. We conclude that we must "bite the bullet" and, for the first time in Connecticut, find in the necessarily uncertain area of...

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