Environmental Study Creates Issues Of Fact For Pollution Claims, Conn. Panel Says

Mealey's (November 8, 2022, 2:27 PM EST) -- HARTFORD, Conn.  — An affidavit and an environmental study offered by a property owner were sufficient to create an issue of material fact about whether petroleum products and other hazardous substances had entered its property through a drainage pipe from an adjacent property, a Connecticut appellate panel held in reversing a trial court’s grant of summary judgment to the past and present owners of a former auto repair shop who argued that the neighboring property owner had to provide stronger evidence of the alleged pollution for the claims to survive the motion....