By David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network The State of Indiana has recently focused on the dangers of lawn mowers to children and for good reason. Between 2003-2008 in Indiana, 38% of all serious lawn-mower-related injuries that required hospitalization involved children 16-year-old and younger. Almost 1/4 of…
By Ryan E. Alekman, Attorney and David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network A Massachusetts couple, Edwine Louissaint, age 33, of Dedham and David Augustin, age 34, of Milton left their children, ages 1 and 10-years-old, alone in a vehicle in a Foxwoods Resort Casino parking garage. Louissaint…
By Joni J. Franklin, Attorney and David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network Between 1998 and 2009, 445 children died from heat stroke after being left unattended in a vehicle; that is an average of 37 child deaths per year. As temperatures are soaring during the summer months,…
By Andrew Prine, Attorney David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network Governor Jennifer Granholm signed into state law Senate Bills 723 and 724, which will give parents more information about the day care providers they choose for their children. Public Act 85 will require day care providers to…
By Will Brown, Attorney and David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network In Tremont City, Ohio, a 6-year-old girl fell off the trampoline located at her home. The child was being watched by her grandmother through the back door of their home. After the accident, which the grandmother…
By Joni J. Franklin, Attorney and David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network A 4-year-old boy from Kansas died as a result from a large television falling on him. At the time of the accident, the child was apparently climbing on a counter when the large television fell…
By David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network Five people were arrested in a Vermont home that operated as day care center. Police seized cocaine and marijuana plants from the home operated day care. The day care center’s operator, Kelly Vitagliano, was arrested. Vitagliano was ordered to appear…
By David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network “Sexting,” a relatively new social phenomenon, has left eight Pennsylvania high school students with a felony pornography charge. The age of the Pennsylvania students ranged from ages 13-17. The students were accused of using their cell phones to take, send,…
By Robert Chaiken, Attorney and David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network A Texas state inspection revealed that in April 2008, staff workers at Daystar, a center for distressed children 30 miles south of Houston, provoked seven developmentally disabled girls into a fight. The staged fight resulted in…
By J. Rock Palermo, Attorney, Roy S. Dickinson, Attorney and David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network Railroad crossings can be quite dangerous especially ones without lights and gates to warn or alert motorist of the approach of a train. There are thousands upon thousands of railroad crossing…
