People injured by government employees could be able to get much more money from local governments in an effort to reduce the burden on the state for compensating victims of government negligence or misdeeds.
A House committee looking at claims bills the process by which the state compensates those injured by "sovereign" governments that have a certain immunity from lawsuit damages took a look at a draft proposal by its chairman aimed at reducing the number of times the state would pay such claims, which have spiked in amount in recent years, but are often considered arbitrary and political.
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