1. Do your homework when picking a daycare.  Find out the licensing agency and research if there have ever been any issues.  Figure out who will be around your child and ask for background checks.  Get references and talk with others regarding their experiences with the daycare.  Visit the facility while children are there to get a feel for how things are run.  Your child’s safety is most important.
2. Continue doing your homework.  Even if it seems like you have found the perfect daycare, continue to ask questions.  New people can start working or daily routines can change.  Show up when they are not expecting you.  Get to know the other parents and question them if they decide to switch daycares.
3. Pay close attention to your child.  Ask them about their day and their interactions with friends and teachers.  If something has happened to your child, they might not admit to it.  So pay attention to their mood and how they act.  Just because your child is acting differently, doesn’t automatically mean they are being abused, it is just a good idea to be a little more alert.

While the great majority of situations are safe, it is very important to be educated and alert.

If you or someone you know has been a victim of child sexual abuse in Phoenix, contact Attorney Jared Everton.  He has years of experience representing those injured by another person’s negligence.   Call (480) 648-8928 to schedule a free and confidential consultation with Phoenix personal injury lawyer Jared Everton.

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The school bus video shows Isabella’s head bobbing back and forth many times over a 17 minute period. The bus driver aid notices that Isabella isn’t breathing and yells for the bus driver to pull over and call 911. The bus pulls over in front of a pediatrician’s office, but instead of calling 911, the bus driver calls Isabella’s mom.

The school bus pulled over a 2:24pm; Lisa arrived and was on the bus at 2:32pm. She saw that her daughter was blue and began performing CPR. Lisa was the first and only person to give CPR to Isabella. When Lisa realized that no one had called 911 yet, she called them herself. While Lisa was on the phone with police, the bus driver finally decided to give Isabella CPR, but it was too late, Isabella died the next day.

Herrera’s attorney is arguing that the school is negligent, because their staff is not only untrained, they lack common sense. The staff on the school bus watched a child die, didn’t call 911, didn’t perform CPR, and didn’t remove her from the bus even though they were parked in front of a pediatric clinic. The bus drivers and aids are not required to take additional training when dealing with special needs children. The school offers additional training, but it’s optional.

The responsiveness shown by the school staff in this case is completely unacceptable. If your child has suffered an injury from negligence, contact a Phoenix personal injury lawyer. Call 480-648-8928 to schedule a free consultation with Mesa negligence attorney, Jared Everton.

Antonio Reyes drowned in gym class that day. The Reyes family brought a lawsuit against the school for negligent supervision. The lawsuit stated that the school didn’t have a lifeguard on duty, they didn’t have a rope separating the deep and from the shallow end, and they didn’t even know if Antonio Reyes could swim. The Reyes family’s lawsuit required the school to issue a formal apology and to implement new safety procedures to prevent further accidents from happening.

The Wenatchee School District settled with the Reyes family for $2 million. The district also issued a formal apology and initiated new safety procedures immediately. The school district also fired the gym teacher in April 2012 for failing to watch over his class that day.

It is the responsibility of our education system to protect students from all forms of danger including other students, parents, and faculty. When a school fails to uphold its responsibility, the students and their families suffer. If your son or daughter has suffered an injury due to negligent supervision, speak with an experienced personal injury attorney. You can call 480-648-8928 to schedule a free consultation with Phoenix negligence attorney, Jared Everton.

A jury has been deliberating a proper settlement, but they haven’t reached an agreement yet. In addition to the disagreement, protestors from Citizens for a Better Arizona have disrupted the settlement according to a jury supervisor. The family has spent $2 million on the trial already, but the trial will resume shortly. There’s no telling what the jury will award the family for Deborah Braillard’s death.

The fact that a person is in jail, doesn’t mean they lose their rights to proper medical attention. If the staff at Maricopa County Jail had given Braillard her insulin upon request, she would still be alive today. There is no doubt that the Maricopa County Jail staff acted negligently and caused the death of 46-year-old diabetic Deborah Braillard.

If a loved one has been injured or killed due to the negligence of another person, contact a skilled negligence attorney. No one deserves to suffer because of someone else’s negligent behavior. You can call 480-648-8928 to schedule a free consultation with Phoenix personal injury lawyer, Jared Everton.

In 2007, the parents of 12-year-old Brandon Myers lived their worst nightmare. Brandon hanged himself in their family home after all of the bullying and torment pushed him over the edge. The Myers family filed a lawsuit against the Blue Springs School District for the wrongful death of their son. Brandon’s parents encouraged him to notify a teacher of the bullying, but the teacher’s response indicated that Brandon should stop being a “tattletale.”

During the course of their wrongful death claim, the Myers family and their attorney discovered that the school district had hid key pieces of evidence. The school hid Brandon’s journal and two suicide notes. The school’s insurance company settled with the Myers family in the amount of $500,000. The lawsuit also required that two school administrators be retrained in bully awareness. Every school within the district must also hold a bully awareness day.

Tragic events like the one in Brandon Myers’ case could have been prevented if the school had taken the proper steps to protect Brandon from the bullying he encountered on a daily basis. If a loved one has suffered from an accident that should have been prevented, contact a skilled Phoenix wrongful death lawyer. Call (480) 648-8928 to schedule a free consultation with Mesa personal injury attorney Jared Everton.

This may explain why Kristyna and Brian Peter found their 18-month-old daughter walking around the gym unsupervised with heavy weights and hundreds of strangers. Their daughter was able to walk out of the day-care center unnoticed and get within walking distance of the front door.

Parents that drop off their children at day-care facilities put a reasonable amount of trust in those facilities to keep their children safe. LA Fitness’ Kids Klub page states:

“Our Kids Klub offers a great babysitting service on premises so that you may enjoy a worry-free workout. We provide not only a safe environment, but plenty of engaging activities for children ranging from games to study stations, play mazes to reading sessions.”

The parents of the 18-month-old girl only wanted a refund for the gym services they weren’t going to use, but LA Fitness couldn’t even do that. About an hour after Call 12 News for Action contacted LA Fitness, they offered Kristyna and Brian a refund for their unused services.

Negligence occurs when the following conditions are met:

1. The person owes another person a duty
2. That person breaches that duty
3. The breach of duty causes an injury; and
4. The injured person suffers damages.

LA Fitness is lucky the Peter’s daughter didn’t suffer any injuries, or else they could have been held liable. If you or someone you know has suffered an injury due to negligence, contact a skilled Arizona personal injury attorney. Call (480) 648-8928 to schedule a FREE consultation with Phoenix negligence lawyer Jared Everton.

It’s tragic when a child dies without any explanation, especially when the child was under the supervision of a school or daycare staff.   Teachers and staff are supposed to supervise the children.  Better supervision avoids most tragedies.

Parents drop their children off at school or daycare with the expectation that their children are going to be safe from harm, but when the school fails to provide adequate supervision, dangerous consequences can follow. It is the school’s legal responsibility to keep all children under their care safe from harm.

If your child has been injured due to inadequate supervision, the school may be liable. Call (480) 648-8928 to schedule a FREE consultation with Phoenix personal injury attorney Jared Everton.

On the day of the incident, two students, Timothy McKnight and Justin Dunnigan moved from their seats near the front of the bus to harass Wilson who was sitting near the back of the bus. There had been no known previous hostility between the three students and the harassment was said to have been prompted by Wilson yelling “Fire, Fire!” in response to a passing fire truck. Once McKnight and Dunnigan moved to the back, video footage shows them verbally harassing Wilson for 3-4 minutes before returning to their seats. Less than a minute later, Dunnigan returned to Wilson’s seat and assaulted him by hitting him 3 times and causing severe physical damage.

The Wilsons charged that the bus driver, Tom Maddox, should have realized that Brandon was in danger and taken appropriate preventative measures to avoid the attack. The video footage shows that Maddox failed to asked McKnight and Dunnigan to return to their seats even though students are not allowed to stand while the bus is moving. In addition, he admitted to seeing McKnight and Dunnigan taunting Wilson, pointing their fingers in his face, when they went to his seat the first time. He also admitted that he should have appreciated the fact that Wilson was in danger seeing as McKnight and Dunnigan were much larger than the victim.

The court ruled that the attack was foreseeable; there was “an immediate threat and an interval where preventative measures could have been taken” before the attack occurred. The video and testimonial evidence proved that a “reasonable person should have known that Wilson was in danger prior to the attack.”

School officials have the duty to prevent an incident like this from occurring if a student seems to be in probable danger and there is time and opportunity to prevent an attack. Failure to do so is considered negligence. If your child was involved in a violent incident at school, and has suffered substantial physical or emotional damages that you had to seek treatment for, and you believe the incident was the result of improper supervision, I urge you to contact an experienced Arizona Personal Injury attorney as soon as possible. Call (480)-648-8928 to schedule a FREE consultation with PI attorney Jared Everton today.

In Denver in 2010, a 19-year-old teacher’s aide was accused of sexually assaulting up to four young children at a children’s center, including a girl who claimed that he “tickled” her during naptime. Similarly, in Michigan, a 19-year-old day care employee was accused of sexually molesting a five-year-old girl, again, during naptime.

Disturbing cases like these prompt so many questions. Why was such a pedophile left alone with young, sleeping, defenseless children? Why were they hired to work with children in the first place? Who’s to blame? Day care facilities are required to provide adequate supervision for your children, and that includes keeping them safe from all dangers.  These cases are examples of negligent supervision—children were left in the care of a company hired to keep them safe and the company breached their duty.   In both cases, the accused were permitted complete supervision of the children by the child care facility. It is paramount to point out that it is illegal in Colorado, where the 19-year-old teacher’s aide was accused of assaulting three children, for an aide to be left alone with students.  A violation of the law is negligence per se.

If your child has been sexually assaulted while at a day care or school, I urge you to contact an Arizona Personal Injury attorney immediately.  We have successfully represented victims of sexual assault.  Call (480)-648-8928 to schedule a FREE consultation with PI attorney, Jared Everton.

Apparently, children were left unsupervised regularly in the “in the playroom while the provider” would sit on the couch in another room. The particular incident, which involved three children, was witnessed by the daycare provider when she walked into the playroom to find the children with their pants down acting inappropriately. After questioning her child, the mother discovered that the three children involved were frequently sent to the basement to watch movies while the younger children had naptime.

Similarly, in Florida in April 2009, a couple claimed that their four-year-old daughter was molested by another little boy. This couple sued the daycare facility for negligence, in a $5 million lawsuit.

As a parent, it can be upsetting and confusing when you feel that your child has been through a traumatic situation like this. If you have a child enrolled in a daycare facility, you have the right to expect that they will be under constant supervision and that they should never be subjected to anything inappropriate.

If your child has been involved in an inappropriate touching incident while under the supervision of a daycare provider, I recommend that you contact an Arizona Personal Injury attorney to discuss your situation. Call (480)-648-8928 to schedule a FREE consultation with attorney, Jared Everton, today.