Schools, travel agencies and other organizations often promote and/or supervise student travel programs, some of which may feature credit for courses taken at foreign universities or guided tours of historically and culturally significant locales,1 while others are, primarily, social events2 or religious missions3 or confidence-building remote wilderness expeditions.4 On occasion a student participant may be killed or suffer serious physical injuries. Cases have examined topics including: (1) the incidence of infectious diseases in the destination country5; (2) requested and needed medical assistance;6 (3) the dangers of recreational activities such as swimming7 or strenuous hiking8; and (4) supervision of students and intervention to prevent the excessive use of alcohol9 and drugs.
Summer Program in China
In Munn v. The Hotchkiss School,10 a boarding school student, Cara Munn, participated in a summer program trip to China and contracted tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) resulting in serious injuries to her brain. After a seven-day trial the jury found The Hotchkiss School, based in Connecticut, solely liable and awarded $10.25 million in past and future economic damages and $31.5 million in non-economic damages,11 the total award being reduced by the trial court to approximately $41.5 million.
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