Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Have Been Recovered for Injured Babies and Children
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When you send your child to school, you expect them to come home safe. When they don’t, because of a fall on a broken playground, a fight staff never stepped in to stop, or an injury during gym class, you deserve answers. A school injury attorney at The Child and Birth Injury Firm can help you find out what happened, hold the right people accountable, and pursue the compensation your family needs to move forward.
Schools stand in the place of a parent while your child is in their care. That means they have a legal duty to supervise students, maintain safe buildings and equipment, and respond appropriately when something goes wrong. When they fail at that duty, the results can range from a broken bone to a permanent, life-altering injury.
This page answers the questions families ask most often after a school accident, and explains how our team can help.
Classrooms are, statistically, the safest place in a school. The real risk sits in a handful of predictable locations.
Yes. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 200,000 children ages 14 and younger are treated in emergency rooms each year for playground-related injuries. A large share of these are severe, involving fractures, internal injuries, or concussions. Liability often comes down to a simple question: was the impact surface, mulch, rubber, or sand, kept at the proper depth? A worn-down or hardened surface is a common basis for a claim.
Yes, and the danger usually isn’t inside the bus. It’s the roughly 10-foot zone around it, sometimes called the danger zone, where children are struck while boarding, exiting, or crossing the street. Bus drivers, like teachers, have a legal duty to supervise students during transportation. Drivers who pass a stopped school bus, sometimes called stop-arm violations, remain a leading cause of student pedestrian deaths, according to the National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services.
Sometimes. A school injury isn’t always about a teacher looking away for a moment. Equipment failures cause real harm, and these cases fall under product liability law rather than simple negligence.
In these cases, we may need to pursue a claim against the equipment manufacturer in addition to, or instead of, the school district.
It does, quite a bit. Courts and insurers look at age when deciding how much supervision a school owed a child.
Negligent supervision is the legal theory behind most school injury claims. To succeed, your attorney generally needs to show three things:
Schools are expected to anticipate that children won’t always follow the rules perfectly. A “no running in the halls” policy doesn’t erase a school’s responsibility if a genuine lack of oversight is what allowed a rule violation to turn into a serious injury.
Sometimes a school will argue that your child’s own actions contributed to the injury, a defense known as contributory negligence. For example, if a student ignored safety instructions during a school-sponsored activity, the school may try to shift some blame onto the student.
Even so, a school can still be held liable if inadequate supervision was part of what allowed the injury to happen. Contributory negligence can reduce a settlement in some states, but it rarely eliminates a valid claim outright. An experienced school injury attorney can assess how your state’s specific rules will affect your case.
This is one of the most important distinctions in school injury law, and it’s why timing matters so much.
Public schools are government entities. Suing one means navigating sovereign immunity, a legal doctrine that limits when and how you can sue a government body. Two things follow from this:
Private schools are not government entities, so these rules generally don’t apply. Instead, private school cases may involve contractual terms or arbitration clauses that can shape how a claim proceeds. Either way, the legal path is different enough that getting an attorney involved early is one of the most valuable things you can do.
If your child has been seriously hurt at school, you don’t have to sort through sovereign immunity rules, notice deadlines, and insurance company tactics on your own. Our team at The Child Injury Firm has spent decades helping families hold negligent schools and school districts accountable, and we understand that children’s injuries require long-term planning, not a quick settlement.
Contact us today for a free, confidential consultation about your child’s school injury case.
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Catastrophic child and birth injuries can shatter the lives of not just the babies and children, but also their families. Families are left to navigate a complex maze of medical challenges, financial burdens, and emotional turmoil. But, this is where Jeffrey Killino and his team of dedicated lawyers can provide the support and guidance families need most.
For over 2 decades, Jeffrey Killino and his team have secured life-changing results for babies and children facing catastrophic injuries. Our clients gain access to the best medical care, financial security, and peace of mind, knowing their futures are protected.
Jeffrey Killino and his team of child and birth injury lawyers are committed to go beyond securing multi-million dollar settlements and verdicts. We measure our success by our positive impact on our clients’ lives. We’re dedicated to supporting them throughout their journey, even after their case is resolved.
Jeffrey Killino and his team of child and birth injury lawyers are committed to more than just securing multi-million dollar settlements and verdicts. We measure our success by our positive impact on our clients’ lives, helping them access the best medical care, achieve financial security, and find peace of mind. We also actively work to prevent injuries and promote safety for everyone.
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