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Paul E Ester

(952 posts) Wed Mar 27, 2013, 09:50 PM Mar 2013

Former Hotchkiss Student Awarded $42 Million After Contracting Disease On School Trip

A federal jury in Bridgeport has awarded almost $42 million to a young girl who suffered brain damage as a result of a disease she picked up on a school trip.

Cara Munn was a freshman at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn. when she partook in a school-supervised trip to China.

Munn, then 15, and the other students were taken to a mountainous region known to be at high risk for tick-bourne illnesses.

Her attorney, Antonio Ponvert, said 10 days after the trip, Cara was hospitalized and diagnosed with tick-borne encephalitis.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/03/27/former-hotchkiss-student-awarded-42-million-after-contracting-disease-on-school-trip/

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