DocketNumber: No. 301814
Citation Numbers: 1996 Conn. Super. Ct. 8813, 18 Conn. L. Rptr. 198
Judges: FRACASSE, JUDGE.
Filed Date: 11/6/1996
Status: Non-Precedential
Modified Date: 7/5/2016
Plaintiffs filed a mechanic's lien to secure payment for insurance premiums "rendered in the improvement of . . . real property owned by [Century — New Haven]." Pursuant to the allegations of the second count of the complaint, plaintiff claims "foreclosure on the bond in substitution of mechanic's lien."
Under the mechanic's lien statute "materials" and "services" do not include insurance premiums. As a matter of law unpaid insurance premiums cannot be secured by a mechanic's lien on a plot of land. Nickel Mine Brook Associates v. Joseph E. Sakal, P.C.,
Said motion for summary judgment is granted as to the second count.
Ronald J. Fracasse, Judge