Any person who steals any property of another, or knowingly receives and conceals stolen property, shall pay the owner treble his damages.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 52-564
Treble damages for theft
Applied in 31 court decisions — leading case Second Injury Fund v. Lupachino (1997)
Most recently applied in Dane v. UnitedHealthcare Ins. Co. (September 2020)
(1949 Rev., S. 8305; 1963, P.A. 99.) History: 1963 act provided recovery be treble damages rather than treble the value of the property stolen.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Connecticut General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Connecticut statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.