Connecticut Taxpayers Could Foot Bill for Chimp Attack

WFSB: A top legislative leader says Connecticut taxpayers will likely wind up paying a large sum to the woman mauled in February by a chimpanzee in Stamford.



State Sen. Andrew McDonald, co-chairman of the legislative committee that handles legal claims against the state, said a recently revealed memo from a state Department of Environmental Protection biologist warning about the chimp could prove the state was negligent.