State workers' compensation law provides criminal penalties if a corporate officer knowingly and willfully fails to comply with statutory requirements that he prove to the Workers' Compensation Commission his solvency to provide proper compensation to employees (CGS § 31-288(f)). The maximum penalty for a violation is up to five years in prison.

Corporate officers and directors may be personally liable for violation of Connecticut's water pollution laws if:

1. they were in a position of responsibility that allows them to influence corporate policies or activities;

2. there is a connection between their position and the violation such that they could have influenced the corporate actions that constituted the violations; and

3. their actions or inactions facilitated the violations (BEC Corp. v. Dept. of Environmental Protection, 256 Conn. 602 (2001); CGS § 22a-432).