A self-represented Waterford man who waged a 13-year medical malpractice battle following his wife’s suicide saw his case rejected by the Connecticut Supreme Court last month, following a series of expanded actions and appeals.

Sylvester Traylor, a resident of Waterford’s Quaker Hill neighborhood, filed a medical negligence suit in 2006 against his wife’s treating psychiatrist, Bassam Awwa, and Awwa’s employer, Connecticut Behavioral Health Associates P.C.