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Chimp Victim Faces Battle in Appeal of $150M Suit

Blocked in her bid to sue the state for $150 million, the woman mauled and disfigured by a chimpanzee in 2009 faces an uphill battle as she appeals to the legislature. Charla Nash, who was blinded, lost both hands and …

$4M Settlement in Connecticut Chimp Attack

A settlement agreement calls for a woman disfigured in a chimpanzee attack to receive about $4 million from the estate of the animal’s now-dead owner, according to documents obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. Attack victim Charla Nash’s brother filed …

Lawyers: Warnings Preempted Connecticut Chimpanzee Attack

Legal documents show an out-of-control chimpanzee that mauled a Connecticut woman in 2009 escaped from his cage five months earlier, prompting his owner to ask that he be shot with a tranquilizer gun. The Hartford Courant reports that Marcella Leone, …