Monmouth University Covered by Charitable Immunity in Concert Injury Case
Monmouth University was fulfilling its educational purpose in holding a concert for country star Martina McBride, and a nonstudent injured there was a beneficiary of the event, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday: “The Court's decision is not at all based on whether the university here made a profit or lost money."
May 07, 2019 at 09:32 PM
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Monmouth University was fulfilling its educational purpose in holding a concert for country star Martina McBride, and a woman who injured herself at the concert was a beneficiary of the event, thus preserving the school's nonprofit status and nonliability under the Charitable Immunity Act, according to the Supreme Court.
The ruling Tuesday affirmed a trial judge and an Appellate Division majority on the matter involving plaintiff Frances Green of Long Branch, who sued the university over injuries she sustained at the concert in the school's Multipurpose Activity Center (MAC) on Dec. 9, 2012. Green was not a student at the university at the time.
Both lower courts cited the state's strong Charitable Immunity Act in favor of Monmouth University.
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