A Louisiana appellate court revived a school district employee’s intentional tort claim against her employer for her injuries from being attacked by a student.
Case: Bernier v. St. Tammany Parish School Board, No. 2025 CA 0260, 11/07/2025, published.
Facts: Lori Bernier worked for the St. Tammany Parish School Board as a paraprofessional at Covington Elementary.
She claimed she was injured when a third-grade student attacked her in October 2022. She alleged the student had stabbed another student with a fork earlier that same day.
Procedural history: Bernier filed a civil suit agains...
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