Thursday, April 11, 2013

CHARLES WARE'S "ENCEPHALITIS" UPDATE: TICK VICTIM AWARDED $41.5 MILLION, www.CharlesJeromeWare.com

A Connecticut female preparatory boarding student at the prestigious Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut has been awarded $41.7 million in compensatory damages for suffering brain damage after being bitten by a tick during a 2007 school trip to China.

Cara Munn was 15 years old when she was left severely disabled following the school trip abroad. Her father claimed the school failed to take precautions against ticks and didn't get his daughter the correct medical attention.

A federal jury in Bridgeport ruled in favor of Cara Munn, who is now 20.

A Conneticut student left brain damaged and unable to speak after being bitten by a tick on a class trip to China was awarded $41.7 million in compensation.

Cara Munn was 15 when, in the summer of 2007, she traveled to the Asian country with classmates from the posh Connecticut boarding school Hotchkiss.

As they journeyed through a rural area of the country, she was was bitten by an insect - which led to her developing tick-borne encephalitis.

Her father, Orson Munn III who heads advertising agency Munn Rabot, claimed the school failed to take precautions against ticks and didn't get his daughter the correct medical attention.

A federal jury in Bridgeport ruled in favor of the student, who is now 20, on Wednesday after an eight-day hearing. The college prep school said it would appeal the award.
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