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Post by Swimmy on Mar 10, 2008 20:14:14 GMT -5
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Post by thelma on Mar 10, 2008 20:38:05 GMT -5
swimmy - I wonder if the School District was self-insured or if they carried Liability/Package insurance with an Insurance Company? IF they were covered by an Insurance Company's policy, this is "normal" practice where an Ins. Co.will settle a claim WITHOUT defending it or even investigating it just to settle the case and close it out.
I use to run up against this all the time where my insurance company paid claims just to get them closed. They claimed it was cheaper to do this than defend the claim and go to Court with it.
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Post by Swimmy on Mar 10, 2008 22:41:31 GMT -5
The sin is not whether it was insured, but that a student made a baseless claim, went unpunished, and the teacher's career and reputation ruined. Where's the repercussion?
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Post by dgriffin on Mar 12, 2008 20:49:51 GMT -5
Every teacher's nightmare, and it does happen. When such a claim is made, administrators want to hide under their desks, insurance companies want to quickly settle to save legal fees, a teacher can be hung out on a limb. Since you're dealing with a minor, there is little repercussion, if any.
The student would have probably been removed from the school and, if not, they wouldn't punish him, anyway, for fear of reprisal. It appears from a careful reading of the story that the teacher kept her employment, although she was transferred to another school building. The case was not really about her being wronged by the student, but involved the issue of administrators keeping what we used to call "desk files," unofficial notes, on a teacher and disseminating them, presumably to other administrators.
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