School Ordered To Pay Kin Of Allergic Student

Johnson & Wales University, an internationally recognized culinary school, has been ordered to pay $434,000 to the family of a student who died of an allergic reaction after eating a shrimp egg roll at a school cafeteria.

James Brown Jr., a 27-year-old chef, had asked for a vegetarian egg roll when he ordered his meal in 1993. He was mistakenly given a shrimp egg roll.

Johnson & Wales contended Brown would have lived had he sought immediate treatment.