Your school and the hospital are liable for your injuries.  Notify the insurance carriers for both the school and the hospital of your personal injury claim.When you complete your medical treatment and are released by the doctor or are declared by the doctor to be permanent and stationary which means having reached a point in your medical treatment where no further improvement is anticipated, obtain your medical bills, medical reports, and if applicable, documentation of any wage loss.  Your personal injury claim filed with the insurance carriers for the school and hospital should include these items.Compensation for the medical bills is straight reimbursement.  The medical reports will document the nature and extent of your injury and will be used to determine compensation for pain and suffering, which is an amount in addition to the medical bills.  Compensation for wage loss is straight reimbursement.If the case is settled with the insurance carriers for both the school and hospital, NO lawsuit is filed.If you are dissatisfied with settlement offers from the insurance carriers, reject the settlement offers and file a lawsuit for negligence against the school and hospital.  If the case has settled with one party (school or hospital), but not both, only name the party with whom the case has not settled as a defendant in your lawsuit for negligence.If the case is NOT settled, you must file your lawsuit for negligence prior to the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations or you will lose your rights forever in the matter.