Hartford Insurance Co. of the Midwest v. Clinic Center, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[notwithstanding the procedural posture of a motion to strike, this court has approved the practice of deciding the issue of governmental immunity as a matter of law”
• approving the practice of deciding the issue of governmental immunity as a matter of law
• affirming the granting of a motion to strike the claim of inadequate police protection
• construing statute describing municipal housing authorities as \body corporate and politic\; General Statutes § 8-40 ; as creating independent corporate entity that is not agent of municipality in which it resides
• in refusing to abolish public duty doctrine, court noted that legislature had not abrogated governmental immunity
• “[T]he great weight of authority [holds] that the operation of a police department is a discretionary governmental function.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).