HUMMEL v. MARTEN TRANSPORT

Nos. 17494, 17496.

923 A.2d 657 (2007)

282 Conn. 477

Debra HUMMEL v. MARTEN TRANSPORT, LTD., et al.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided May 22, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert E. Desrosiers, Stratford, with whom, on the brief, was Michael Feola, Bridgeport, for the appellant in the first case, appellee in the second case (plaintiff).

William F. Gallagher, with whom were Erica W. Todd, and, on the brief, Joseph F. Trotta, New Haven, and Hugh D. Hughes, for the appellees in the first case, appellants in the second case (defendants).

Andrew M. Dewey, Rocky Hill, filed a brief for the Connecticut Defense Lawyers Association as amicus curiae.

James Moran and Robert F. Carter, Woodbridge, filed a brief for the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association and the Workers' Compensation Section of the Connecticut Bar Association as amici curiae.

BORDEN, NORCOTT, KATZ, PALMER, VERTEFEUILLE, ZARELLA and BISHOP, Js.


PALMER, J.

This certified appeal raises two principal issues: (1) whether, under the plain meaning rule of recently enacted General Statutes § 1-2z,2 we are obliged to overrule our precedent importing a final judgment requirement into General Statutes § 31-301b,3 which governs appeals from the compensation review board (board) to the Appellate Court, because § 31-301b does not refer to such a...

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