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| 3 | 3 | LCO No. 2493 1 of 1 | |
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| 5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6323 | |
| 6 | 6 | January Session, 2019 | |
| 7 | 7 | LCO No. 2493 | |
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| 10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY | |
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| 13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | 14 | REP. PETIT, 22nd Dist. | |
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| 18 | 18 | AN ACT CONCERNING BIFURCATED TRIALS FOR NEGLIGENCE | |
| 19 | 19 | ACTIONS. | |
| 20 | 20 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 21 | 21 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 23 | 23 | That section 52-205 of the general statutes be amended to provide 1 | |
| 24 | 24 | that: (1) There shall be a rebuttable presumption that a court may order 2 | |
| 25 | 25 | that any negligence action that is to be tried to a jury may be 3 | |
| 26 | 26 | bifurcated; (2) during the first phase of such trial the jury shall make a 4 | |
| 27 | 27 | determination on the issue of negligence; and (3) the second phase of 5 | |
| 28 | 28 | such trial shall address the issue of damages. 6 | |
| 29 | 29 | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 30 | 30 | To establish a bifurcated trial system for negligence actions. |