In the 11 years since a two-ton girder fell on Norman Pelletier and broke his spine, his legal battle toward a record $32.1 million courtroom recovery has created dramatic and unexpected upheavals in Connecticut construction liability law.
In the process, it’s stripped general contractors of a false sense of invulnerability and turned some 150 pending plaintiff’s cases from losers to winners, said Pelletier’s lawyer, William H. Clendenen Jr., of New Haven’s Clendenen & Shea.
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