$59.1 Million Awarded By New York Jury For Student’s Burns In Science Experiment

(July 23, 2019, 10:47 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A New York jury awarded $59.1 million on July 5 to a man who was severely burned at age 16 while watching his high school science teacher conduct the “Rainbow Experiment,” after a federal chemistry board warned school systems that the experiment is dangerous (Yvonne Yanes, et al. v. New York, et al., No. 161066/2014, N.Y. Sup., New York Co.)....

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