(a) On and after December 1, 2000, each state marshal shall carry personal liability insurance for damages caused by reason of such state marshal's tortious acts in not less than the following amounts: (1) For damages caused to any one person or to the property of any one person, one hundred thousand dollars; and (2) for damages caused to more than one person or to the property of more than one person, three hundred thousand dollars. For the purpose of this subsection, “tortious act” means negligent acts, errors or omissions for which a state marshal may become legally obligated to any damages for false arrest, erroneous service of civil papers, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, libel, slander, defamation of character, violation of property rights or assault and battery if committed while making or attempting to make an arrest or against a person under arrest, but does not include any such act unless committed in the performance of the official duties of such state marshal.
(b) The state shall protect and save harmless any state marshal from financial loss and expense, including court costs and reasonable attorney's fees, arising out of any claim, demand or suit instituted against the state marshal for personal injury or injury to property by, or as a result of the actions of, any person who is lawfully taken into custody by the state marshal, pursuant to a capias issued by Support Enforcement Services of the Superior Court and directed to the state marshal, if such injury occurs when such person, while in such custody, is transported in a private motor vehicle operated by the state marshal. In the event a judgment is entered against the state marshal for a malicious, wanton or wilful act, the state marshal shall reimburse the state for any expenses incurred by the state in defending the state marshal and the state shall not be held liable to the state marshal for any financial loss or expense resulting from such act.
(P.A. 76-15; P.A. 00-99, S. 128, 154; P.A. 01-195, S. 7, 181; P.A. 07-69, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 00-99 replaced references to sheriff and deputy sheriff with state marshal, requiring state marshals to carry personal liability insurance for tortious acts, effective December 1, 2000; P.A. 01-195 made a technical change for purposes of gender neutrality, effective July 11, 2001; P.A. 07-69 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a), made technical changes therein and added Subsec. (b) re indemnification of any state marshal for an injury occurring while transporting a person in custody in a private motor vehicle operated by the state marshal.
Cited. 229 C. 479. Section does not constitute waiver of sovereign immunity. 265 C. 301.
Cited. 44 CS 368.
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Miller v. Egan, 828 A.2d 549 (Conn. 2003).
Miller v. Egan, 828 A.2d 549 (Conn. 2003).
· cites it 40× “to 1999) § 6-30a, 3 which requires sheriffs to obtain personal liability insurance.”
Envirotest Sys. Corp. v. Comm'r of Motor Vehs., 978 A.2d 49 (Conn. 2009).
· cites it 4× “to 1999)] § 6-30a. In fact, the opposite inference makes more sense, namely, that the legislature intended the individual sheriffs and deputy sheriffs, rather than the state, to bear liability for the conduct covered by the statute.”
Antinerella v. Rioux, 642 A.2d 699 (Conn. 1994).
· cites it 2× “” General Statutes § 6-30a provides: “personal liability insurance.”
Antinerella v. Rioux, 690 A.2d 450 (Conn. Super. Ct. 1995).
· cites it 5× “In addition, General Statutes § 6-30a requires each high sheriff and deputy sheriff “to carry personal liability insurance for damages caused by reason of his tortious acts” in an amount of at least $100,000 “[flor damages caused to any one person.”
Vossbrinck v. Hobart (Conn. App. Ct. 2021).
· cites it 13× “Our legislature addressed that issue in its 2007 amendment to General Statutes § 6-30a, which now provides in relevant part in subsection (b) that ‘‘[t]he state shall protect and save harmless any state marshal from financial loss and expense .”
Miller v. Kupchunos, 106 F. Supp. 2d 340 (D. Conn. 2000).
· cites it 7× “Nor is there a discussion of supervisory or vicarious liability for tortious or criminal acts committed by other sheriffs in plaintiffs submission of the bill’s legislative history.”
— Conn. Gen. Stat. § 6-30a(a) — 1 case
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