Published December 22. 2012 4:00AM
By Brian Hallenbeck
The state Supreme Court has upheld a 2012 jury finding that Bank of America’s negligence enabled a former St. Bernard School employee to embezzle more than $800,000 from the school between 2002 and 2006.
In rejecting the bank’s appeal, the Supreme Court, in an advance release opinion published Tuesday, found that the $823,776 jury award to the school “neither shocks the conscience of this court nor falls outside the limits of just damages.” Read more >>