Cioffoletti Construction v. Nering

The defendant appeals from the trial court’s judgment for the plaintiff in an action seeking full payment for work the plaintiff did installing a septic system and performing other plumbing work. The defendant claims that the trial court erred (1) in accepting opinion evidence regarding the standards of the state building code where it should have accepted the standards in the code as a matter of law, (2) in awarding attorney’s fees to the plaintiff in excess of 15 percent of the judgment in violation of General Statutes § 42-150aa (b) and in failing to award attorney’s fees to the defendant…