Department of Administrative Services v. Gerace

The defendant, William Gerace, an attorney, represented a client in a personal injury action. The client was a parent whose family had been the beneficiary of payments made through the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. On July 14,1992, the plaintiff, the department of administrative services, notified Gerace by letter of its statutory lien pursuant to General Statutes (Rev. to 1991) § 17-SSe1 to recover AFDC payments from any proceeds of a judgment or settlement of the personal injury *792action. The letter informed Gerace that upon recovery he was to send a letter to the…