Date: Fri 01-May-1998

Publication: Bee

Author: ANDYG

Quick Words:

schools-lawsuit-Morici

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Town To Be Sued Over Gym Injury

A law firm has notified Newtown's town clerk that its client, a Newtown High

School student, will seek monetary damages from the town in connection with

the student's injury in the school gym last November.

In an April 15 certified letter to Town Clerk Cindy Curtis Simon, attorney

Barbara L. Coughlan, of the law firm Tierney, Zullo, Flaherty and Murphy, PC,

of Norwalk, states her client, Amanda Morici of 118 Head of Meadow Road, was

injured in the school gymnasium sometime between 11 and 11:30 am on November

26, 1997, when another student, Greg Williams, swung a golf club, hitting her

in the face.

According to the letter, three teachers, Amy Gagnon, James Casagrande and

Daniel Winsett, were in the gym at the time supervising students.

"Ms Morici sustained numerous fractures of her facial bones, bruised nerves in

her face, traumatic hyphema to her eye, a disfigurement of her eye and face,

and headaches, some or all of which may be permanent," Ms Coughlan's letter

states.

"Amanda Morici will look to the Town of Newtown, the Board of Education, and

the individual teachers involved for damages as provided by law," the lawyer's

letter adds.