The Commonwealth Court has reinstated a personal injury suit against a school because the record lacked sufficient information about how an accordian-style partition was secured to school property to justify the application of governmental immunity.
On Oct. 9, a three-judge panel of the court ruled in Taylor v. Northeast Bradford School District to reverse a decision out of the Bradford County Court of Common Pleas tossing the plaintiff’s case. The lower court had found that the school was exempt under the Political Subdivision Tort Claims Act because the plaintiff’s injury resulted from a fall on personalty, which is not exempt under governmental immunity.
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