The Connecticut House of Representatives has sided with a legislative committee that recommended a woman blinded and disfigured in a 2009 chimpanzee attack should not be allowed to sue the state for financial damages.
The 126-14 vote on Monday, April 28, was not unexpected. It would have been unusual for the House to overrule the recommendation of the Judiciary Committee, which upheld last year’s decision by the Claims Commissioner’s office, which refused Charla Nash’s request for permission to sue the state.
