Jury awards teacher compensation for mold exposure
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ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - A jury has found that a Montgomery County teacher is entitled to receive worker's compensation from the state after she said mold in a portable classroom drove her from her job.
Shirley Washington, a former English teacher at Banneker Middle School, is one of many teachers and students in the county who reported that they got sick after exposure to mold and other toxins in portable classrooms. The others returned to work, but Washington did not.
Jurors in state Circuit Court found that Washington contracted an occupational disease after her attorney said that the exposure in fall 2004 caused his client to developed fatigue, coughing, wheezing and headaches. She had filed complaints about the conditions before.
But school officials say that Washington failed to prove that the mold made her sick and intend to ask the judge to set aside the verdict in the case.
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