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New Bill Would Attempt to Curtail Infant Heat Stroke

In the first seven months of 2017, 30 infants died of heat stroke while trapped in cars on hot days. Since 1998, 729 children have died of heat stroke when their caretakers forgot them or left them ...

DUI Boating Accident that Kills Child is Subject of Wrongful Death Suit Against Lake Operators

Fox Waterway and Spring Lake Marina operators are named in a wrongful death lawsuit that alleges that the two entities knew the dangers of DUI boaters on Petite Lake but failed to warn a family before ...

U.S. Field Hockey Association Sued For Dangerous Court

A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of a teen girl that was injured during a field hockey tournament, as the ball had landed an uneven portion of the floor and then struck the girl in the head, and the ...

Zoo Responds to Claims of "Strict Liability" in Case of Wrongful Death of Two Year Old

A two year-old boy that was killed when he fell into a zoo's exhibit of African painted dogs, is now at the center of a wrongful death lawsuit in which the zoo is claiming that there is no ...

Former Sheriff Files Suit After Toddler is Able to Access Gun in Faulty Safe

A former sheriff with Clark County, WA, is suing a safe manufacturer for wrongful death as the man's young son was able to access a gun from their locked home safe and accidently shoot himself. He ...

Daycare, Fearing Overcrowding Citation, Leaves Child in Car to Die

As reported by WSVN Channel 7 News from Sunrise, Florida, in an attempt to hide the number of children in their care prior to an inspection, preschool owners packed up and drove several of their young ...

Too Much Sun + Too Little Fluid = Football Player's Wrongful Death

When a high school football player required emergency treatment in 2007 following a football practice, his parents thought they covered all of the bases in insuring their son's coach set up ...

Overloaded Truck vs. Poorly Trained School Bus Driver = Death of Triplet, Injuries, Lawsuit

The parents of triplets involved in a school bus crash have filed a personal injury lawsuit naming both the driver of the school bus and driver of the overloaded dump truck that it collided with, as ...

School Failed to Stop One Punch = Permanent Paralysis

While a report about being bullied had been e-mailed by the victim to his middle school, three months later the victim was punched in the abdomen, by the same school bully he had reported, and ...

Louisiana DCFS Sued for Wrongful Death of Five-Year-Old

The Shreveport Times has reported that a mother has filed a wrongful death lawsuit naming the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services, DCFS, as negligent due to its failure in supervising ...

Young Child's Illness at Center of E. coli Lawsuit

One of three children, reportedly infected by E. coli 0157:H7 last year after ingesting raw milk from the same creamery, is the subject of a lawsuit as the infection has caused the child to develop ...

Mother Pleads Guilty to Child Neglect Following Auto Accident

In South Florida, a woman recently pled guilty because she allegedly put her child in a dangerous situation. On Friday, Roseline Jean-Baptiste pled guilty to charges that included culpable negligence ...

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