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Anti-Stacking Provision Limits Liability Coverage for Fatal School Bus Crash

An insurance policy that covered seven vehicles, each with a $1 million per-accident limit, doesn’t provide $7 million in liability coverage for a fatal crash that involved only one of the covered vehicles, an Illinois appellate court ruled Thursday. A …

Kentucky School Bus Crashes off Embankment, 18 Children Hurt

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A school bus crashed over an embankment and landed on its side Monday morning in rural Kentucky, sending 18 children and the driver to hospitals with injuries ranging from minor to severe, authorities said Monday. Pupils …

Report: Oklahoma School Bus Traveling too Fast for Conditions

An Oklahoma school bus that hydroplaned on a wet road and crashed in Central Texas last month, injuring nearly everyone onboard, was traveling at an unsafe speed for the conditions, according to a Texas Department of Transportation report. The bus …

Minnesota Jury Awards $28M in Crash That Left Teen Paralyzed

A jury has awarded more than $28 million to a woman paralyzed in a crash with school bus in northern Minnesota, but it remains to be seen whether she’ll ever receive the entire award. Paige Anderson was 16 years old …

Louisiana Man Injured by School Bus Wins $51000

The Terrebonne Parish School Board must pay more than $51,000 to a man who was injured when a school bus rear-ended a Sears van he was driving, a Louisiana district judge has ruled. Although police reported minor injuries at the …

Kentucky Crash Survivors Prepare for Anniversary Events

They are reaching middle age, in the midst of raising children and building careers. A quarter century has elapsed since an amusement park outing turned into a terrifying night, when they escaped from an old school bus that burst into …

Settlement in Death of Missouri Student Hit by Bus

The family of a northwest Missouri teenager who died after being hit by a school bus reached a $5 million settlement with the bus company. Sixteen-year-old Mason Adams, a junior at St. Joseph’s Lafayette High School, died Nov. 15, 2010, …

Texas School Bus Crash Sends 32 to Hospital

Police say a tractor-trailer clipped a school bus in central Texas, flipping the bus onto its side and sending 32 people – 29 of them children – to a hospital. The accident occurred about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday about 60 miles …

Chinese Media Say 15 Killed in School Bus Crash

At least 15 Chinese primary school students were killed when the bus taking them home overturned in the country’s east, highlighting serious problems with child safety following a similar tragedy last month. Eight other children were injured, one of them …

Pennsylvania Jury: $14M for School Bus Crash, Amputation

A woman who was struck by a school bus when she was in high school and lost her left leg was awarded $14 million by a Pennsylvania jury on Monday, although the award is likely to be reduced under state …