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| Connecticut Personal Injury Law |
When Delores Walker got hurt on property belonging to the
Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport, she probably was thinking that she
needed a lawyer and probably not thinking about how our legal system in
Connecticut comes from the days of the kings in England. Ultimately, the fact that our law goes back
to the English common law cost her the chance to recover for her personal injury.
In olde England, the King was not just the ruler, the
King was the law. If you got hurt
because the royal carriage knocked you down, you could not sue the King because
that would be like saying the law was wrong.
You could only sue the King if the King let you. And today, you can only sue the government,
including the Housing Authority of Bridgeport, if the government lets you.
The government does let you sue for personal injuries
caused by the carelessness of government employees, but you have to do it in
exactly the way the government lets you.
If you want to sue a government housing authority in Connecticut, you
have to follow General Statutes § 8-67.
This statute says that any person injured on housing authority property
must send a notice of the injury within 6 months to the chairman or secretary
of the housing authority.
Through her attorney, Ms. Walker sent a notice addressed
to “Bridgeport Housing Authority” with the salutation “To Whom It May
Concern.” The notice followed the
requirements of the statute in that it identified Ms. Walker as the injured
person, stated when and where she was injured, and stated that she intended to
sue for her personal injuries. However,
because the notice was not specifically addressed to either the secretary or
chairman of the housing authority, neither of them noticed it.
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