In a closely watched liability case, the state Supreme Court sided with a federal jury’s $41.8 million penalty against the Hotchkiss School after a student was infected by a bug bite during a class trip.
The Salisbury school failed to adequately warn students on a 2007 school-sponsored trip to China about the risk of insect-borne diseases. The plaintiff, Cara Munn, then 14, contracted tick‐borne encephalitis on the trip, which left her disabled and unable to speak. After a trial in 2013, the jury found the school liable.
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