Conn. Practice Book § 16-18

The judicial authority may submit to the jury written interrogatories for the purpose of explaining or

limiting a general verdict, which shall be answered

and delivered to the clerk as a part of the verdict.

The clerk will take the verdict and then the answers

to the several interrogatories, and thereafter the

clerk will take the judicial authority’s acceptance of

the verdict returned and the questions as answered,

and proceed according to the usual practice. The

judicial authority will not accept a verdict until the

interrogatories which are essential to the verdict

have been answered.

Sec.16-19. Reading of Statement of Amount

in Demand or Statement of Claim; Arguing

Amount Recoverable

In any action seeking damages for injury to the

person, the amount demanded in the complaint

shall not be disclosed to the jury. In the event that

the jury shall return a verdict which exceeds the

amount demanded, the judicial authority shall

reduce the award to, and render judgment in, the

amount demanded. Counsel for any party to the

action may articulate to the jury during closing

argument a lump sum or mathematical formula

as to damages claimed to be recoverable. The

judicial authority shall issue cautionary instructions pursuant to General Statutes § 52-216b.