Jury finds 8-year-old not liable for leaping into aunt's arms and breaking her wrist
What would a prudent 8-year-old do when he spotted his beloved aunt arriving at his birthday party?
That was the question a Connecticut jury had to answer on Tuesday, and it took the group only about 20 minutes to do so. It found Sean Tarala, now 12, not liable for leaping into his aunt’s arms, knocking her down and breaking her wrist, reports the Connecticut Post. The accident occurred at the boy’s home in Westport, Connecticut, on March 18, 2011.
Jennifer Connell, now 54, lives in a Manhattan walk-up apartment. She testified that having to deal with the residual effects of her injury has made life more difficult and sought reimbursement for $127,000 in medical expenses in the Bridgeport Superior Court case.
We just didn’t think the boy was negligent,” a female juror told the newspaper as she exited the courthouse.
The law firm representing Connell says she sued her nephew in an effort to get the family’s insurance carrier to cover her medical bills, rather than in an effort to collect from him, reports the Associated Press. The insurer, the firm says, had offered to pay her $1.
