Shaun Egbert, an employee for the Scotts Valley Unified School District in Scotts Valley, California, was awarded more than $2 million from a statewide insurance fund the district pays into, for personal injuries she sustained in a California car accident while on a school field trip in May 2007. According to a news article in the Press-Banner, Egbert, a behavior specialist, suffered a shattered wrist, severed tendons in her ankle, a broken upper leg and a frozen shoulder. She was a passenger in a car on Highway 1 during a field trip to Wilder Ranch State Park.

The car accident occurred when a car crossed the center divide on Highway 1 and crashed head-on with the car in which Egbert was riding with a young autistic girl with Down Syndrome. The driver of the other car, apparently, did not carry sufficient insurance to pay for Egbert's medical bills, loss of wages and suffering. The money finally came from the Northern California Regional Liability Excess Fund. The Scotts Valley School District, along with 380 other districts, pays regularly into the fund that helps cover insurance claims that other forms of insurance do not cover.

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