Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced legislation today that he said would protect horse owners against insurance premium increases stemming from a 2012 court ruling.
The proposed legislation takes aim at a 2012 appellate court ruling in a case about a Milford boy who was bitten in the face by a horse. The court ruled that horses are “a species naturally inclined to do mischief or be vicious.”
Malloy’s bill states that horses are not “inherently dangerous.”
“This legislation will protect owners of domesticated horses from a precedent-setting state court decision that unfortunately used too large of a brush to paint an entire species of animals as wild, threatens an industry, and would treat these owners unlike any other state in the nation,” the governor said in a statement.
