By Starla Pointer • Staff Writer • 

School districts’ insurance costs set to rise

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Comments

Loretta

This just feels tragic to me. We have to increase insurance coverage because the likelihood of sexual abuse to public school kids is great, if not greater. Can we not somehow work on prevention?

tagup

I don’t think the insurance increase is due to a higher likelihood of abuse, I think it’s the increase in the cost of defense and settlement of claims.

Bigfootlives

Tag up, how does that work? That’s like saying car insurance in Detroit is not expensive because my car is going to get stolen, it’s expensive because they have to process and pay the claim.

If this is to cover employee abuse and misconduct claims, divide the $50k evenly between the district employees and deduct it from their wage and benefit package. Fixed it for you.

Silly question, only because the district doesn’t feel the need to tell us taxpayers it’s business. Would the increase in this type of insurance have anything to do with a certain school board member who was told not to set foot in a school without permission from the principal, and the fact that almost immediately after the superintendent was paid off, no doubt after signing an NDA, and shown the door “without cause”?

Is it unreasonable for the people who pay the salaries are told what the hell is going on?

tagup

Your point is unclear to me….
The cost of litigation & awards can certainly increase while the number of claims remain the same.
Another factor ( from the article) appears to be the cut in coverage by the existing insurance fund by 50%( $10 million), that requires additional coverage with an additional policy.

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