Jury Awards $270K in Baylor University Suit Brought by Former Student

A federal jury found Baylor University negligent in a Title IX lawsuit and awarded $270,000 to a former student who alleged she was physically abused by a football player in 2014 during a period of wide- ranging scandal at the nation`s biggest Baptist school.

In siding with former student Dolores Lozano, jurors in a Waco courtroom held that Baylor ‘maintained a policy of deliberate indifference to reports of sexual harassment’ that put her at risk. The jury awarded her damages for negligence by Baylor but not for the Title IX violation.

The verdict comes a month after Baylor settled a separate, years-long federal lawsuit brought by 15 women who alleged they were sexually assaulted at the school. That was the largest case related to a scandal that ultimately led to the ouster of the university’s president and football coach Art Briles.