commissioner in the Superior Court. No such action shall be brought except within two years from the date of such injury, nor unless notice of such injury and a general description of the same and of the cause thereof and of the time and place of its occurrence has been given in writing within ninety days thereafter to the commissioner...." We granted the commissioner's petition for certification to appeal, limited to the following issues: (1) "[w]hether the Appellate Court properly concluded that the waiver of sovereign immunity under ... § 13a-144 extends to a claim that the state police were negligent in failing to close the bridge before a [department] crew could arrive to address the condition"; and (2) "[w]hether the Appellate Court properly imposed a duty on the state to employ ‘adequate interim measures,’ in place of or in addition to the [commissioner's] duty to remedy a highway defect within a reasonable time under the circumstances after actual or constructive notice ...." Graham v. Commissioner of Transportation , 324 Conn. 907, 152 A.3d 1245 (2017).The opinion of the Appellate Court sets forth the relevant facts and procedural history.