Carbone v. Connecticut Light & Power Co.

This is an action for damages resulting from a fire in the plaintiffs’ home allegedly caused by a “surge of high voltage electric current” which overwhelmed the electrical service panel causing an arcing condition and the fire. The first three counts of the complaint are directed to the defendant, Connecticut Light and Power Company (CL&P), counts one and three sounding in negligence, the second count sounding in product liability, the plaintiffs alleging that the “defective condition” of the electric current furnished by CL&P “breached the defendant’s warranty that the electric power it sold…