DUNI v. UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP./PRATT & WHITNEY AIRCRAFT DIVISION

(15373)

239 Conn. 19 (1996)

BEATRICE DUNI v. UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION/PRATT AND WHITNEY AIRCRAFT DIVISION ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Officially released August 20, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sydney T. Schulman, for the appellant (plaintiff).

Nancy S. Rosenbaum, for the appellees (named defendant et al.).

Kenneth H. Kennedy, Jr., assistant attorney general, with whom, on the brief, were Richard Blumenthal, attorney general, and William J. McCullough and Michael J. Belzer, assistant attorneys general, for the appellee (defendant second injury fund).

Peters, C. J., and Callahan, Borden, Katz and Palmer, Js.


PALMER, J.

The dispositive issue raised by this appeal is whether a stipulation entered into by an employee and his employer in full and final settlement of the employee's workers' compensation claim can bar a claim for survivor's benefits by the employee's widow after the death of the employee. The employee, William Duni (decedent), filed a workers' compensation claim against his former employer, United Technologies Corporation/Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Division...

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