Word: ponds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stone in the Pond...
Harold Kaitz, a Boston casualty claims lawyer, said last night that Harvard may be liable if the University "had knowledge of a history of children in the neighborhood being attracted [to the pond] and was aware that the probability of attraction is increased by experience...
...fact that a drowning occurred in the same pond 18 years ago, and that several near-drowning have been reported there in the last decade, could substantiate a charge of gross negligence on the University's part, Kaitz said...
Another Boston lawyer, Gerald A. Berlin, agreed in part with Kaitz. "I would think Harvard's standard of responsibility in this case is minimal, or totally minimal, unless there have been previous attachments with regard to the pond as a hazard." Berlin said...
Jaffe said a jury could conceivably find Harvard negligent for failing to "take policing measures at the pond site." He pointed eat that Massashusetts has been strict in requiring landowners to make their property safe...