The Connecticut Appellate Court relied on governmental immunity to uphold a lower court’s summary judgment dismissing a lawsuit against the Metropolitan District Commission for a drowning on its lake property in Barkhamsted.

In its 3-0 ruling Tuesday, the panel said the family of 23-year-old Andres Burgos was not able to show that employees should have known people might be using an undesignated swimming area on Lake McDonough known as “The Point.” The family attempted to argue government immunity didn’t apply because public employees should have known of the danger associated with people swimming in that particular area.

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