THE HARTFORD COURANT REPORTS THAT AFTER A TWO YEAR DELAY, THE CLAIMS COMMISSIONER HAS ALLOWED A $20 MILLION LAWSUIT TO MOVE FORWARD AGAINST DCF!

"The Hartford Courant" reports as follows:

 

"After more than two years, there is finally movement in the $20 million wrongful death claim filed by the father of child-abuse victim Athena Angeles against the state Department of Children and Families. Twenty-seven months after the claim was first filed, Claims Commissioner J. Paul Vance Jr., on Monday dismissed a state motion to have the claim thrown out, freeing the case to proceed to further hearings in Vance's office. State departments are generally shielded from liability and those intending to sue the state must get the permission of the claims commissioner."

 

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