DocketNumber: No. CV 97 0056882S
Citation Numbers: 2000 Conn. Super. Ct. 9740, 28 Conn. L. Rptr. 10
Judges: SFERRAZZA, JUDGE.
Filed Date: 8/23/2000
Status: Non-Precedential
Modified Date: 4/17/2021
On May 4, 2000, the jury returned a verdict in this motor vehicle negligence action awarding the plaintiff $1,404 in economic damages and $500 in noneconomic damages. The plaintiff was a state employee whose medical bills were paid by insurance in full. These bills pertained to treatment she received from the date of the accident, November 27, 1996, to January 20, 1997, the date the jury determined her treatment ended with respect to the injuries caused by the accident. The jury's award of $1,404 corresponds precisely to these medical bills.
The insurance premiums paid by the plaintiff or on her behalf were $89.54 per pay period. The pay period is every two weeks. The plaintiff's health care insurance contract was renewable annually. The insurance contract year, which encompassed the accident date of November 27, 1996, began on July 1, 1996. The payments of premiums, however, necessary to acquire coverage beginning July 1, 1996, commenced with the May 24, 1996 pay period.
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Because the cost of securing insurance coverage, $2,328.04 exceeds the collateral source payments, $1,404, no deduction for collateral source applies.
___________________ J. Sferrazza, J.