Amy Benedict claims she was fired from her job at the Trumbull Cheesecake Factory after she was verbally and physically attacked by a supervisor. She filed a lawsuit, claiming negligence, wrongful termination, and negligent infliction of emotional distress.
But she was recently dealt another blow when Superior Court Judge William Wenzel struck down all four claims in Benedict’s lawsuit. In an April 21 decision, Wenzel wrote that claims accusing employers and supervisors of being wrong, demeaning, insensitive and even insulting “are not new” and that Connecticut statues note that not every instance of “hurt feelings” qualifies as a tort. Wendell said torts are reserved for behavior and actions that surpass all bounds of decency and are “utterly intolerable in a civilized community.”
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