Jury Awards Family $15 million after P.E. Student dies running laps.
Los Angeles Unified owes a family $15 million after their son died during a middle school P.E. class in 2016, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The jury found that the district was liable because even though a defibrillator was located on campus, staff didn’t know it was there and didn’t use it to help the boy, who had collapsed while running laps during a morning P.E. class at Palms Middle School. The verdict in Los Angeles Superior Court was unanimous.
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