October 29, 2008
Texas A&M U. and Former Officials Settle Bonfire Lawsuit for $2.1-Million
Texas A&M University and a dozen current and former administrators from the flagship campus in College Station agreed on Tuesday 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 at a hearing in a state district court. The university will pay $500,000—the maximum allowed under Texas' tort laws—and the rest will come from the insurance policies of two of the administrators who
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