HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - The Connecticut Supreme Court overturned an $11.4 million jury verdict against the town of Clinton in a lawsuit filed by a man injured in a 2005 car crash who blamed a 911 dispatcher.
The lawsuit alleged the town was responsible because the dispatcher failed to tell a volunteer firefighter during a 911 call to stop following a car that had struck the firefighter’s vehicle in a hit-and-run. The car crashed into a tree after the firefighter had followed it for nearly three miles at 40 to 50 mph.
Walker Hopkins was a passenger in the car and suffered a brain injury. His estate sued the town and a Waterbury Superior Court jury found in his favor in 2011. The town appealed.
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The Supreme Court ruled Monday the dispatcher wasn’t liable.
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