November 7, 2008
Texas A&M Settles Bonfire Lawsuit
Texas A&M University and a dozen current and former administrators on the flagship campus, in College Station, have agreed to pay $2.1-million to settle a lawsuit over a bonfire collapse that killed 12 students and injured 27 others in 1999.
The settlement was announced last week at a hearing in a state district court. The university will pay $500,000 — the maximum allowed under the state's tort laws — and the rest will come from the insurance policies of two
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