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Highlands County district reports nearly $1 million insurance shortfall; board approves five-year clinic lease
Summary
Deputy Superintendent Andrew Lethbridge told the board claims are running well above monthly expectations, and the board approved a five-year lease for a new employee clinic location with CareATC.
Deputy Superintendent Andrew Lethbridge reported to the Highlands County School Board on Oct. 10 that the district’s insurance claims remain high, leaving the district “almost a million dollars in negative” compared with budgeted expectations.
Lethbridge said September’s claims totaled about $2,000,000, compared with an expected monthly range of $1.4 million to $1.5 million. “So you can see we're about $500,000 to the negative for that month alone,” he told the board.
Lethbridge and district staff said they have been working with an insurance consultant (referred to in the meeting as Fleet) and that the consultant recommended…
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