A record-breaking $14 million Bucks County Common Pleas Court verdict awarded to a teenager who was run over by a school bus could turn into a test case for Pennsylvania’s $500,000 cap on claims made against municipalities.

Plaintiffs’ attorney Tom Kline, of Kline & Specter, said, “I always viewed [ Zauflik v. Pennsbury School District ] as a case that would be a vehicle for testing the cap” set out in a 1980s law.

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