By David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network Most playgrounds throughout virtually every community have monkey bars. While monkey bars are quite common, they are still dangerous especially for young children climbing on or transversing monkey bars in a playground. It takes a certain strength, dexterity, skill, and…
By David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network The U.S. Product Safety Commission publishes guidelines and recommendations for the set up, maintenance, and supervision of children in playgrounds in the publication – Public Playground Safety Handbook. Because playgrounds are present in virtually every school, community, day care center,…
By David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network At most schools and day care centers, there is a playground available for use by the children enrolled in the program. Most of these playgrounds have slides. For most children on most days, the playground slide is a location of…
By Joni J. Franklin, Attorney and David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network In Kansas and other States, parents rely on day care centers to provide care and supervision of their children during the work day. In most instances, the children are cared for in a safe, clean,…
By David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network Should a caretaker, babysitter, parent, or childcare provider slide down the playground slide with a child? And playgrounds in every community there’re are typically slides many caregivers, babysitters daycare providers, and other adults believe that the safest thing to do…
By Steven Smith, Attorney, and David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network In Long Island, New York, three bounce houses went airborne after some strong winds lifted up the bounce houses at a soccer tournament. The incident took place at the Town of Oceanside (Long Island) New York…
By David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network Marquise Bessllieu, 17, a Georgetown High School (South Carolina) basketball player is recovering after being stabbed outside Georgetown Presbyterian Church. Police arrested the attacker who was later identified as 24-year-old Maliek Gibbs. Bassllieu first encountered Gibbs during the basketball game…
By Roy S. Dickinson, Attorney and David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network In Oklahoma and other States, there are concerns about the lack of consistent and accurate date regarding playground incidents and accidents. Children are frequently injured on playgrounds at schools, day care centers, parks, community centers,…
By Jonathan Safran, Attorney and David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network Evan Coubal, a 6th-grader of Muskego, Wisconsin tragically died from a head injury he sustained after falling off playground equipment. Evan was an athletic boy and had recently sustained a concussion during a youth football game…
By Scott A. Marks, Attorney and David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network A tram accident at the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom theme park in Vallejo, California left 3 injured. Nancy Chan, a Six Flags spokeswoman, told local reporters that the tram was transporting guests to the parking…