Tucker v. Connecticut Insurance Placement Facility

This appeal concerns the applicability of the immunity provisions of General Statutes § 49-73a et seq. to the payment by an insurance company of fire loss proceeds to a municipality for outstanding municipal taxes owed by the insured.

The plaintiff insured1 brought an action against the defendant to recover insurance proceeds and damages arising out of a fire loss with respect to certain real property located at 963 Capitol Avenue in the city of Hartford. The defendant filed three special defenses, the thrust of which essentially alleged the same thing, namely, that it had paid the proceeds to…