Yucaipa School District reaches $15.75-million settlement in student’s death from asthma attack

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A San Bernardino County school district settled a lawsuit this week for $15.75 million with the family of a middle school student who died in 2019 after suffering an asthma attack on campus, officials said.

Adilene Carrasco, 13, a Mesa View Middle School student, began experiencing difficulty breathing while walking with her science class to the school’s athletic field for a class project on Oct. 31, 2019, according to the lawsuit filed against the Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District in August. The suit was filed in August of this year.

Adilene had a history of asthma attacks and in the months leading up to her death, had two attacks documented in the school’s electronic database, according to the lawsuit and her family’s attorney.

“Adilene’s death was a preventable tragedy that resonates and reaffirms the fear of every parent and caregiver of an asthmatic child,” the family’s attorney Robert Glassman said in a news release. “Asthma is a leading cause of school absenteeism and the number one reason school-age children go [to] the emergency room.”

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