Skuzinski v. Bouchard Fuels, Inc.

I join in the majority’s disposition of this appeal.

I do not believe, however, that we should jettison the requirement that a party must show a legal relation to another from whom indemnity is claimed as enunciated in Atkinson v. Berloni, 23 Conn. App. 325, 327-28, 580 A.2d 84 (1990). Where a person is not in control of the situation and that person’s negligence is not the direct, immediate cause of an injury, that person may be liable only if he or she has some kind of legal relationship with the negligent party in exclusive control of the situation whose negligence is the direct, immediate…