HARTFORD — More than 40 workers who weren’t injured but lost their jobs after a deadly power plant explosion in Connecticut are hoping the state Supreme Court allows them to sue several contractors for hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost wages.
The high court is scheduled to hear arguments Wednesday by lawyers for the contractors and the workers, whose claims were rejected by a trial court judge.
The 2010 blast during construction of the Middletown Kleen Energy power plant killed six workers and injured about 50 others. Federal regulators fined several companies more than $16 million for 371 alleged safety and workplace violations.
A lawyer for the contractors being sued by the uninjured workers says state law doesn’t allow economic damages for people not physically injured in negligence cases.
