That is why we will pursue the entity we think is most culpable, the Energy and Environmental Protection Department of Connecticut, for allowing Sandra Herold to possess the chimp in the first place.” Nash’s family is trying to sue the state for $150 million but is awaiting permission from the state claims commissioner. “It won’t nearly address her medical needs and her other lifestyle needs, not to mention pain and suffering. “The money that we have obtained for Charla is an insignificant amount in the scheme of things,” the Nashes’ lawyer Charles Willinger said Thursday. She is facing another surgery for hand transplants and will need to be on antibiotics for the rest of her life. Her lawyers have said she requires care and supervision around the clock. The $4 million settlement would cover a small fraction of Nash’s medical costs. It also claimed Herold gave the chimp medication that exacerbated its “violent propensities.” Travis had previously bitten another woman’s hand and tried to drag her into a car in 1996, bit a man’s thumb two years later and escaped from her home and roamed downtown Stamford for hours before being captured in 2003, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit alleged Herold knew Travis was dangerous but failed to confine him to a secure area and allowed him to roam her property. A month after the mauling, Nash’s family sued Herold, accusing her of negligence and recklessness. Charla Nash’s other brother, Stephen Nash, declined to comment.
Messages were left Thursday for Michael Nash. He had argued previously that Herold’s estate couldn’t be sued because Charla Nash was an employee of Herold and any claims were a worker’s compensation matter. Leydon said Thursday that his office has since provided the information and the settlement is nearly finalized. Lawyers for Nash’s twin brother, Michael Nash, accused executors of Herold’s estate earlier this week of withholding information needed to complete the settlement, according to a court document obtained by the AP. The settlement agreement filed in Stamford Probate Court calls for Herold’s estate to provide Nash with $3.4 million in real estate, $331,000 in cash, $140,000 in machinery and equipment and $44,000 in vehicles. The chimp could eat at the table, drink wine from a stemmed glass, use the toilet and bathe and dress itself.
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Travis had starred in TV commercials for Old Navy and Coca-Cola when he was younger and made an appearance on “The Maury Povich Show.” The chimpanzee was the constant companion of the widowed Herold and was fed steak, lobster and ice cream. Nash, 57, now lives in a nursing home outside Boston. But the chimp went berserk and ripped off Nash’s nose, lips, eyelids and hands before being shot to death by a police officer. Nash had gone to Herold’s home on the day of the attack to help lure Herold’s 200-pound chimpanzee, Travis, back inside. A lawyer for the Nash family, though, said the money obtained is “an insignificant amount” considering what Nash went through. Attorney Brenden Leydon, representing Herold’s estate, said the case is “resolved.” “I think it was a fair compromise on all sides,” Leydon said. Nash was blinded, lost both hands and underwent a face transplant after being mauled outside Herold’s home in Stamford in February 2009. Attack victim Charla Nash’s brother filed the lawsuit on her behalf in 2009 in state Superior Court seeking $50 million in damages from chimp owner Sandra Herold, who died in 2010. Her eyes had to be removed after the attack.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.
She could eat, smell, express her emotion and feel the face." When the transplanted tissue heals and nerves regrow – a process that will take at least nine months and possibly longer – Pomahac says Nash "should control the face well. "We're optimistic that should Charla choose in the future, we could transplant the hands again, should a suitable donor be identified."ĭespite the loss of the hands, Pomahac says, "I consider it still a success" because Nash has a very good chance of regaining "a very functional face." "After several days of doing everything possible to retain the hands, it was clear that they were not thriving," Pomahac said at a press conference. That compromised blood flow to the transplanted hands, so surgeons had to remove them. But after the operation Nash suffered a blood infection that caused her blood pressure to crash. In a 20-hour operation, surgeon Bohdan Pomahac says the team transplanted hands from the same donor.
Charla Nash: Transplant animation from BWH Public Affairs on Vimeo.
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