01Apr
Heightened Standard of Care for Special Needs Students
The Federal District Court in Pennsylvania recently confirmed that drivers, aides, and schools are held to a heightened duty or standard of care when transporting special needs students because such students are more vulnerable to harm. The recent case of K.M. v Chichester School District, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 16416, explained that a bus driver’s and aide’s error in leaving an autistic child on the bus at the end of a run and the related lack of appropriate training and policies amounted to “deliberate indifference”. Request this article today by emailing help@rckelly.com to read the details of the Court’s findings regarding the claim presented by the parents and the student.
Contact Us to read the Full Article.
Related
The landscape of decisions that effect employers and labor unions has changed in 2018 demonstrated b...
Read More >
According to the General Duties Clause of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), 29 U.S.C. §...
Read More >
In September 2017, Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) introduced H.R.3703, the No School Bus Drivers with DUIs A...
Read More >
At the PALA conference this year, we presented on a number of basic concepts in employment law that ...
Read More >
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, views about mask requirements have been a divisive iss...
Read More >
The General Duties Clause of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), says that “[e]ach emplo...
Read More >