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Kyle Ellsworth

FILE - This undated photo provided by Kyle Ellsworth shows his mother, Joyce Grayson. (Kyle Ellsworth via AP, File)

HARTFORD, Conn. – Connecticut officials have agreed to a $2.25 million settlement of a lawsuit over a sex offender's killing of visiting nurse Joyce Grayson at a halfway house in 2023 — a case that reignited calls for better protections for home health care workers across the country.

A state judge in Hartford approved the settlement on Thursday in the wrongful death lawsuit filed by Grayson's husband. Meanwhile, settlement talks with other defendants in the lawsuit, including Grayson's employer, are continuing, said Kelly Reardon, a lawyer for Grayson's family.

Grayson, a 63-year-old mother of six and a nurse for 36 years, had gone to the halfway

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