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ZAPATA v. BURNS

(13014), (13025), (13027), (13029), (13031), (13040), (13042)

207 Conn. 496 (1988)

ROSA E. ZAPATA, ADMINISTRATRIX (ESTATE OF LUIS A. ZAPATA), ET AL. v. J. WILLIAM BURNS, COMMISSIONER OF TRANSPORTATION

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released May 17, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Silver and Richard A. Bieder, with whom were David P. Burke, Gerald E. Fogarty, Catherine C. Ziehl and, on the brief, Jay H. Sandak, Alexander J. Holland, Carey B. Reilly and Michael P. Koskoff, for the appellants (plaintiffs).

William B. Rush, with whom were Thomas F. Morgan and, on the brief, Sharon A. Creegan, for the appellee (third party defendant Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton).

Karen P. Blado filed a brief for the Connecticut Engineers in Private Practice, Inc., et al., as amici curiae.

PETERS, C. J., HEALEY, GLASS, COVELLO and HULL, JS.

HULL, J.

These consolidated cases arise out of the collapse, on June 28, 1983, of a suspended span of the Mianus River Bridge on the Connecticut Turnpike (1-95) in Greenwich. The dispositive issue is the constitutionality, under both the state and federal constitutions, of General Statutes § 52-584a which bars actions against architects and engineers seven years after substantial completion of a project, irrespective of whether a claim has arisen by that time...

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