Snell v. Norwalk Yellow Cab, Inc.

Summary

The court held that superseding cause remains available when a third party's criminally reckless conduct is alleged to be the sole legal cause of the plaintiff's injuries, because statutory apportionment is unavailable between negligence and reckless misconduct. It nevertheless reversed because the jury's findings that the defendant's negligence was a proximate cause and that the third parties' conduct was a superseding cause were legally inconsistent under Connecticut precedent. The case was remanded for a new trial.