Comments on: Connecticut SC backs $41.7M verdict against school for failing to warn of tick bites https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/08/connecticut-sc-backs-41-7m-verdict-school-failing-warn-tick-bites/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 22 Aug 2017 15:31:47 +0000 hourly 1 By: Hugo S Cunningham https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/08/connecticut-sc-backs-41-7m-verdict-school-failing-warn-tick-bites/comment-page-1/#comment-346614 Tue, 22 Aug 2017 15:31:47 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=65886#comment-346614 I would throw out the $30 million punitive damages –Who is culpably negligent if a schoolchild gets a bad outcome from Lyme disease in Connecticut?
More might be said, however, for actual damages in a society that does not have universal health insurance.

Maybe schools should not be encouraging minors to go to remote parts of the World with poor health services. Maybe such trips should be allowed but with higher insurance costs built in. Or maybe the Legislature can decide that wider exposure to the World is a public good that should be encouraged by liability caps.

]]> By: Ian Random https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/08/connecticut-sc-backs-41-7m-verdict-school-failing-warn-tick-bites/comment-page-1/#comment-346601 Mon, 21 Aug 2017 04:20:52 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=65886#comment-346601 Guiltmail strikes again. Nothing is an outlier or a tragedy anymore.

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