Mary Morrin, executor of the estate of James Morrin v. Carl Koplin: A former Tolland doctor and his nurse practitioner failed to treat James Morrin’s mental illness, according to lawyers for Morrin’s estate. They instead gave the man numerous sleeping pills for insomnia and never recommended counseling.

Thus, the plaintiff’s lawyers said, Morrin did not get the help he desperately needed. In June 2009, he shot and killed his wife, Alice, before killing himself 46 seconds later.