Torts/Personal Injury
Nov. 27, 2024
Jury delivers $7.1M verdict against LA schools
The jury found that the school had been negligent in its supervision of the student on the playground.
A Los Angeles jury awarded $7.1 million to a former elementary school student who suffered a brain injury on a playground in 2017, finding the Los Angeles Unified School District negligent in its response to the accident.
The verdict came after a six-week bifurcated trial stemming from an incident at Marvin Avenue Elementary School, where the student fell on cracked asphalt while playing soccer and struck her head. Magallanes v. Los Angeles Unified School District, BC68466...
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