Bash v. Clark University

Agnes, Peter W., J.

Background

Plaintiff, Daniel Bash (“Mr. Bash”), as co-administrator of his daughter’s estate, brought a wrongful death action against Clark University (“Clark”) and nine individuals for the death of his daughter, Michele Claudia Bash (“Ms. Bash”). Michele Bash died on campus after voluntarily consuming heroin while she was a freshman at Clark in Worcester, Massachusetts. Defendant Matthew Book (“Mr. Book”) was a freshman at the time of Ms. Bash’s death and allegedly supplied Michele with heroin. The other eight individual defendants, administrators at Clark at the time at…