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An end to broad protections for police officers against lawsuits will not hike insurance rates for towns or police departments in Connecticut, according to a report by the Insurance Law Center at University of Connecticut.
The end of qualified immunity for police was the biggest change officers objected to in reforms that lawmakers passed last summer. But a study by Peter Kochenburger at UConn’s Insurance Law Center finds officers would still be mostly covered by their towns and the change would not hike insurance rates.
“The cost of police liability is a fairly small portion of municipal policy. And that may go up, the liability policy may go up for any number of reasons, but the change of the law, which isn’t much of a change at all in terms of liability, isn’t going to be the reason,” he said.