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...By law the Board of Education must approve all payments greater than $25,000, but Patricia Via, chief for the county’s division of litigation which represented Starnes and the school system, said there is no requirement for the money agreed to in the settlement to go before the Board of Education for a vote of approval because the Board carries comprehensive liability insurance to protect itself and employees, as required by state law.
“Under that statute, the BOE is self-insured up to $100,000 per occurrence,” Via said. “The Board participates in the Montgomery County Self-Insurance Program and any settlements or judgments are paid through the Self-Insurance Program within the Board’s self-insurance limits.”
An occurrence, Via said, does not refer to the number of plaintiffs. In this case, she said, there was one occurrence and the maximum amount offered in a settlement would be $100,000...
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Teachers at Kemp Mill settle
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Not sure if I am more shocked by the fact that Starnes still has his job or is not in jail yet. Did MCPS pay hush money on the eve of the trial to avoid having ten day's worth of criminal deeds aired in public?
ReplyDeleteI am shocked at how little media coverage this story generated. I suppose that was the intent of the school district buying silence from those six teachers. Still as a tax payer in Mont County, I deserve to know what I paid for, especially considering Starnes had a county attorney representing him.
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