HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A man charged with burning down his beach home hours before he was supposed to give it to his estranged wife can sue the home's insurer for emotional distress, the state Appellate Court ruled Monday.
Richard Shenkman, 62, is also accused of kidnapping his ex-wife and holding her hostage for hours during a police standoff two years later in a different home and burning that one down as well.
In the beach home case, Shenkman alleges that Central Mutual Insurance Co. decided not to cover the 2007 loss of the home in East Lyme after wrongly concluding without an independent investigation that he burned it down. He is seeking an undetermined amount of damages in a lawsuit filed in 2008 at New London Superior Court.
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