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Minnesota Supreme Court rules school may be liable after student-driver crashes driving to postseason meet
Terry Morrow, MSBA|Dec 6, 2018
On November 21, 2018, the Minnesota Supreme Court, in reversing the appellate court, ruled in Fenrich v. The Blake School that a school could be held liable after a student driving a personal vehicle to a postseason weekend athletic meet caused a fatal accident. The Court of Appeals had granted summary judgment for The Blake School, determining no issues of material fact existed and the school was entitled to judgment as a matter of law. In the Fenrich case, a 16-year-old high-school student drove some of his cross-country teammates and a volun...