The state attorney general’s office is arguing to dismiss a lawsuit alleging medical malpractice after an incarcerated man died from peptic ulcer disease that went undiagnosed and untreated.

The man, Alan Alterisi, died in May 2018 at age 58 after undergoing surgery at UConn Health’s John Dempsey Hospital. He had been incarcerated since 1997 .

The complaint , filed by Alterisi’s sister Sally Walsh earlier this year in Hartford Superior Court, alleged that four doctors working in the Department of Correction had failed to adequately provide medical care for Alterisi over the course of several years, by not recommending further testing despite his ongoing symptoms.

In an internal investigation completed after his death, a nurse consultant for the state, Marci Ouellette , said there

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