The Connecticut Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court’s ruling in favor of the state’s motion to strike the plaintiff’s complaint. It held that the estate of a woman, who was murdered by her son during an approved home visit from a residential mental health care facility, couldn’t sue for medical malpractice.

The Office of the Claims Commissioner signed off on allowing Jill Levin, administrator of the estate of Margaret Rohner, to sue Connecticut, alleging medical malpractice.