Former Student Seeks Money for Injury
A former high school student is asking his city for reimbursement of medical expenses running to thousands of dollars, saying he suffered extensive and permanent injuries in a gym class game of "Capture the Cone" that got out of hand.
The student, now graduated, was a senior when his eye was damaged at school during a morning gym class and he has submitted medical bills of more than $10,000.
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"It’s now several months later and I still don’t have a full recovery of the motion of my left eye.
The doctors did everything they could; but I’ll never get full motion back," the student wrote in a letter seeking reimbursement of his hospital and physician expenses.
The school superintendent said he did not know of the incident but that filing a claim at city hall is standard procedure if a student wants the city to pay for medical expenses related to injuries at school.
The school system recommends that parents purchase insurance that would cover accidents and injuries on school grounds, but it appears that very few actually do buy the insurance.
The student said he was hurt when four players from the other team linked arms to form a "human wall" and ran at him. They were trying to block him from reaching one of their teammates, he said.
"The person second to the end of the line hit my lower half and tripped me. The person on the other end of the line hit my upper body. On impact, his elbow [swung] up and hit me in the face," claimed the student in his letter. "In addition to being knocked to the ground and run over, I blacked out. Standing up, I couldn’t see anything."
The student said he went to the school nurse’s office and vomited and was taken by ambulance to a local hospital for a CAT scan. He was released, but visited several eye doctors the next day when he still couldn’t see. He underwent plastic surgery to repair damage to his eye socket, he wrote.
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