A Connecticut federal court jury has awarded a 20-year-old New York woman $41.7 million after she claimed that a private school was negligent in preventing her from contracting insect-borne viral encephalitis during a school trip to China.
The Hotchkiss School, located in Lakeville in Connecticut’s Northwest Corner, was faulted for not warning the former student of the mountainous and forested landscape where she would be traveling, and for not having her protect herself from insect bites with repellant and with other measures, such as long-sleeved shirts and trousers instead of shorts.
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