Supreme Court of Connecticut
Lynch v. State
February 6, 2024348 Conn. 478
Summary
The court affirmed a judgment awarding damages for injuries and death caused by negligent therapeutic donor insemination and prenatal care. It held that the fertility-treatment claims were medical malpractice claims within the Claims Commissioner's sovereign-immunity waiver, that the injured child could recover conventional tort damages without recognition of a wrongful-life cause of action, and that the causation expert's testimony was properly admitted. The court treated challenges to the factual premises of the expert's opinion as affecting weight rather than admissibility.