Chimp Owner Seeks to Limit Mauled Woman’s Claim

An attorney for the owner of a chimpanzee that attacked and mauled a woman in Connecticut in February has argued that the attack should be treated like a worker’s compensation claim. Attorney Robert Golger says the victim of the attack was working as an employee of the chimpanzee owner’s tow truck company at the time of the attack, and therefore was a work-related incident.

If successful, this strategy would severely limit the woman’s ability to collect monetary damages and protect the owner of the chimpanzee from personal liability. Charla Nash is still in the Cleveland Clinic after the two-hundred-pound chimpanzee tore off her hands, nose, lips, and eyelids. Nash’s family has filed a fifty million dollar lawsuit against the owner.

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