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26 ¦ JULY 6, 2020 VERDICTS & SETTLEMENTS

$250K Clinched For Man Who Sued
Girlfriend After Falling on Ice

By Robert Storace

Davanand Shiwgobin, who fell on ice accumulation on a driveway on his girlfriend’s property,

W recently settled the case for $250,000.
hen plaintiff Davanand Shiwgobin sued his “Initially, I thought this would be your typi-
girlfriend for falling on accumulated ice on cal open-and-shut, slip-and-fall case,” Bartlett said
her driveway, the defense team thought the Wednesday. “The defense made the claim that the
fix was in. girlfriend had just put in the surveillance camera …
Defense counsel took the view, according to to capture the fall.”
plaintiffs counsel Frank Bartlett, that Shiwgobin But Bartlett was ready to show that Budhai’s sur-
and then-girlfriend Nirmala Budhai had colluded to veillance video, which captured the fall, had been
fake the slip and fall and have it taped to collect on installed years earlier.
the insurance policy.
So Bartlett, owner of the Bartlett Legal Group in Building the case
Cheshire, worked to prove otherwise. He built a case Shiwgobin fell in February 2018, according to the
to show Shiwgobin had, in fact, fallen and injured January 2019 lawsuit filed in New Britain Superior
himself. Court. Budhai had asked him to take out the trash.

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