Jonap v. Silver

In Jonap v. Silver, 1 Conn. App. 550, 561, 474 A.2d 800 (1984), the plaintiff filed an action against the defendant for injurious falsehood and invasion of privacy. Following trial, the jury awarded damages in favor of the plaintiff for, inter alia, both invasion of privacy by appropriation and invasion of privacy by false light. Id. at 553. On appeal, this court found that the jury improperly had awarded damages for both invasion of privacy by appropriation and invasion of privacy by false light because the award amounted to a duplication of damages. Id. at 561. The Court concluded that the plaintiff was "not entitled to recover twice for the same elements of damage such as mental distress, harm to reputation, pecuniary loss or resulting unjust enrichment growing out of the same transaction, occurrence or event. . . . Put another way, the plaintiff cannot twice suffer damage to his reputation, mental distress or other harm from this one transaction. Thus, he should not twice recover damages." Id. at 561-62.