I guess you could say Lynn Hagerbrant is a very cautious person. In fact, she is so cautious and conservative that some people would be surprised to find out that she plays the lottery at all.
She knew she had won the jackpot of $8.8 million the day after the drawing. But she waited almost 9 months before turning in the winning ticket.
What did she do during that time?
Mostly, she consulted with her lawyers. She wanted to be sure she did the right thing so that her family’s estate was protected, and so that her children would be guaranteed added security for the future.
So much time had gone by since the drawing, lottery officials were wondering if the winning prize was going to go unclaimed (that has happened about a dozen times for the CT lottery in the past 25 years). They were even planning a new media campaign to try to find the winner. That’s when Hagerbrant stepped forward to make her claim.
She said most of the money will go into a “nest egg”. Maybe she has read some of the lottery horror stories on this blog, and learned from other people’s mistakes.