Mealey's (February 9, 2018, 2:22 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 6 affirmed a $41.5 million jury award against a private school in Connecticut for negligence in a lawsuit claiming that a student contracted tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) during a school trip to China, finding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in its expert witness rulings (Orson D. Munn, III, et al. v. The Hotchkiss School, No. 14-2410, 2nd Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 2852)....