This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.A bus company is on the hook for a $7 million award to a girl who suffered a brain injury when she jumped from a moving vehicle in keeping with an informal last-day-of-school tradition, Ontario’s top court has ruled.
“The trial judge did not misdirect on causation, and there was ample evidence to support the jury’s verdict and apportionment of liability,” the Appeal Court said. “As such, the liability verdict is reasonable.”The incident happened on the last day of Grade 8 when Little and other students were on their way home from their area public school. She and her twin sister had ridden the bus for years and Sarah, as a bus patroller, knew how to open the emergency doors.
Among other things, jurors found the company didn’t follow its own policies by failing to tell schools about previously known instances of students jumping from buses on their last day. The higher court rejected the arguments. Quinlan, the court said, had clearly set out the factors that led to the teen’s injuries, and jurors were aware of those. Both sides also had a hand in drafting the jury instructions and neither had objected when Quinlan delivered them, the court said.“There is no question that the jury was alive to the defence position that Ms. Little should be principally responsible for her tragic decision to jump from a moving school bus,” the Appeal Court said.
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I’m sorry, she jumped off the moving bus and the bus company is held accountable HOW
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