Florida Senate - 2007                 SPECIAL MASTER AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 74
                        Barcode 165766
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11  The Special Master on Claim Bills recommended the following
12  amendment:
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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
15         On page 3, line 19, delete "$1.2 million"
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17  and insert:  $1,059,738
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21  And the title is amended as follows:
22         On page 1, line 13, through
23            page 3, line 7, delete those lines
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25  and insert:
26         WHEREAS, on February 11, 2005, Brooke Ingoldsby, an
27  8-year-old third grader at James B. Sanderlin Elementary
28  School, was being transported home on a school bus of the
29  Pinellas County School Board which was driven by a substitute
30  bus driver employed by the school board, and
31         WHEREAS, rather than depositing Brooke, who was the
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    Florida Senate - 2007                 SPECIAL MASTER AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 74
                        Barcode 165766
 1  last student on the bus, at her appointed bus stop where her
 2  grandmother was waiting for her, the substitute bus driver
 3  dropped Brooke off on the corner of 90th Avenue and the east
 4  side of 9th Street North, a busy thoroughfare in St.
 5  Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida, and
 6         WHEREAS, Brooke was subsequently struck by a southbound
 7  sports utility vehicle in the west-most southbound lane of 9th
 8  Street North and was pronounced dead 3 hours later at Bayfront
 9  Medical Center, and
10         WHEREAS, Brooke suffered multisystem trauma, head
11  injury, bilateral closed femur injury, a closed right humerus
12  fracture, and a severe abrasion to her right waistline, and
13         WHEREAS, the Pinellas County School Board admitted
14  liability for Brooke's death and agreed to pay the total sum
15  of $2.5 million for the damages and losses sustained by the
16  estate of Brooke Ingoldsby and for the losses suffered by
17  Brooke's mother, Michelle Allen, and
18         WHEREAS, judgment was entered in the amount of $2.5
19  million, including $200,000 in damages and losses sustained by
20  the estate of Brooke Ingoldsby and $2.3 million for the losses
21  suffered by Brooke's mother, Michelle Allen, and
22         WHEREAS, the school district has paid $100,000 to the
23  estate and $100,000 for the losses suffered by Michelle Allen,
24  thus exhausting the limits of the waiver of sovereign
25  immunity, and
26         WHEREAS, the school district maintained a liability
27  policy of $1 million, which was paid to Michelle Allen, and
28         WHEREAS, Michelle Allen has received $140,262 from
29  insurance policies and other collateral sources, NOW,
30  THEREFORE,
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