The state on July 19 paid a $2.6 million settlement reached in a Middlesex County suit, Estate of Davis v. State of New Jersey, claiming that negligence by the Division of Child Protection and Permanency contributed to the death of a 7-year-old boy in a house fire.
Tyler Lamont Davis was one of five people who died in a fire at his family home in South Plainfield on Feb. 23, 2012. The suit claimed that child welfare workers visited the child’s mother 32 times between 2001 and 2012 to investigate reports of abuse or neglect, but never found cause to remove Tyler or any of the other six children living there. The division was negligent because it viewed each of the incidents in a vacuum, rather than examining the pattern of incidents, said plaintiff lawyer Paul da Costa of Snyder Sarno D’Aniello Maceri & da Costa in Roseland. If Tyler had been removed from the home by state officials, he would not have died in the fire, da Costa said.
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