In any civil action arising out of personal injury or property damage, as a result of which personal injury or property damage the husband or parent of the plaintiff has made or will be compelled to make expenditures or has contracted indebtedness, the amount of such expenditures or indebtedness may be recovered by the plaintiff, provided a recovery by the plaintiff shall be a bar to any claim by such husband or parent, except in an action in which the husband or parent is a defendant.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 52-204
Recovery of expenditures by husband or parent
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Cimino v. Yale University (1986)
Most recently applied in 1997 Conn. Super. Ct. 4554 - Norwood v. Gordon, No. Lpl-Cv-96-0472232s (Apr. 28, 1997) (April 1997)
(1949 Rev., S. 7947; 1951, S. 3181d.)
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