A student who injured her knee at an Israeli kibbutz while participating in a pre-college travel-study program has had her personal injury action revived by a Manhattan appellate court.
Although a unanimous panel of the Appellate Term, First Department, acknowledged state courts have rejected the doctrine of in loco parentis when it comes to college students, the court said it was “not prepared to say on the record so far developed that the holdings of those cases are properly analogized to the situation at bar involving injuries allegedly sustained by a participant in a ‘gap year,’ study abroad program.”
