Graham v. Comm'r of Transp.

**402*667In this appeal, we consider whether the waiver of sovereign immunity under General Statutes § 13a-144,1 the state's highway defect statute, **403extends to a claim that the state police failed to close a bridge before a crew from the Department of Transportation (department) could arrive to address an icy surface on that bridge. The defendant, the Commissioner of Transportation (commissioner), appeals, upon our grant of his petition for certification,2 from the judgment of the Appellate Court reversing the trial court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the commissioner on the…