The state Supreme Court has denied a student, whose leg was amputated after being run over by a school bus, the ability to bypass the $500,000 statutory damages cap and collect the full $14 million verdict for her injuries.
In an opinion by Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille issued late Wednesday, the justices unanimously upheld the state's governmental damages cap in plaintiff Ashley Zauflik's suit against Pennsbury School District. Former Justice Seamus P. McCaffery did not participate in the decision.
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