Settlement Reached After Mold Found In Madison School

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Settlement Reached After Mold Found In Madison School

Teacher, Students Sued Construction Company

http://www.channel3000.com/education/8891628/detail.html

UPDATED: 6:00 pm CDT April 21, 2006

MADISON, Wis. -- Almost three dozen teachers and students settled

their four-year-long lawsuit on Friday against a construction

company after mold was found in a Madison elementary school in 2001.

Both sides agreed to a $650,000 settlement payout.

Chavez Elementary School opened in 2001, but closed two months later

because mold was apparently found in a majority of classrooms, WISC-

TV reported.

Thirty-five teachers and students brought the suit against Westra

Construction claiming that the company failed to remove excess

moisture when the school was built. The moisture allegedly caused

mold and respiratory problems for people in the school.

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How many students went to this school? The best recent research

indicates that the larger the number of people exposed to biotoxins in

a moldy building or other unhealthy mold environment, the closer the

number of people with symptoms is to 24%, the percentage of people who

have HLA-DR genotypes that indicate their bodies metabolize biotoxins

more slowly. This percentage is the same for people of different

races, sexes and ancestries. It doesn't change very much.

So, perhaps this was a very small school?

Or I have to wonder if some people were intimidated into not being

open about their symptoms?

On 4/21/06, tigerpaw2c <tigerpaw2c@...> wrote:

> Settlement Reached After Mold Found In Madison School

> Teacher, Students Sued Construction Company

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> http://www.channel3000.com/education/8891628/detail.html

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> UPDATED: 6:00 pm CDT April 21, 2006

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> MADISON, Wis. -- Almost three dozen teachers and students settled

> their four-year-long lawsuit on Friday against a construction

> company after mold was found in a Madison elementary school in 2001.

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> Both sides agreed to a $650,000 settlement payout.

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> Chavez Elementary School opened in 2001, but closed two months later

> because mold was apparently found in a majority of classrooms, WISC-

> TV reported.

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> Thirty-five teachers and students brought the suit against Westra

> Construction claiming that the company failed to remove excess

> moisture when the school was built. The moisture allegedly caused

> mold and respiratory problems for people in the school.

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