Neighbor: Cicarella has failed to perform settlement obligations. The litigious Republican has settled his accident claim.

A confidentiality agreement precludes the public from knowing the details, but a September 30th motion by Andrew Koutroumanis against state Senator Paul Cicarella in the dispute over Cicarella building an in-ground pool in considerable part on Koutroumanis’s property reveals the matter continues to combust on the extensive court docket.

Koutroumanis claims that the settlement agreement in the action that was initiated in 2023 included an obligation on both parties “not to make public or to disclose to any other persons, including the news media,” the terms of the settlement agreement between the neighbors. Koutroumanis claims he has performed whatever the agreement required of him. Cicarella, the plaintiff asserts, has met neither of the requirements he agreed to in the voluntary settlement.

“The [settlement] agreement sets forth two separate deadline dates for the defendant [Cicarella] to perform various affirmative obligations,” according to Koutroumanis. He claims in his motion to enforce the terms of the agreement, that Cicarella has failed to perform his obligations by the two deadline dates. Koutoumanis asks to court to enforce the agreement since Cicarella has ignored the detailed notice of his default provided by the plaintiff.

This disregard of the agreement is costing Koutroumanis money. Students of Cicarella’s extensive litigation will recall that Koutroumanis showed Cicarella that if the North Haven Republican proceeded with his construction plans, he would be encroaching on Koutroumanis’s property. Cicarella declined to listen.

In another lawsuit, the litigious Cicarella recently withdrew his claim for damages for extensive injuries suffered in a motor vehicle collision in New Haven. The public record contains no details of how the case was resolved. He had been seeking $490,000.00 for his injuries, including surgery on a toe and a 25% permanent disability of his cervical spine.

Cicarella has been the subject of unflattering coverage of his state worker’s compensation benefits. Those arose out of an injury he suffered in 2009, 18 months into his job as a corrections officer. He would later be cleared to return to work on light duty. Cicarella never returned to any job with the state, but he did received hundreds of thousands of dollars in state benefits and has worked as a wrestling coach and private investigator.

Cicarella’s various injuries are likely impeding his ability to knock on doors, remain standing, and exposing himself to sunlight as he seeks a third term.

Published October 7, 2024.