Negligent Daycare: It’s Always Serious When You Jeopardize a Child’s Safety and Wellbeing
When you entrust your child to a daycare center, they charge you a significant amount of money for the promise that they will provide a safe and nurturing environment. When they break that promise, they must be held accountable.
Jeopardizing a child’s safety is always serious, and cases involving a negligent daycare center in Westchester County must be treated seriously from start to finish.
Michael J. McConnell is Westchester County personal injury lawyer and a former NYC prosecutor who takes a no-nonsense approach to all cases – particularly those involving children. As a loving father himself, he is personally driven to make sure communities are safe from negligent caregivers and others that we entrust with the safety of our children.
If your child has been injured at a daycare center in Westchester County, contact the Law Office of Michael J. McConnell right now for a free consultation by calling (914) 810-0510 or emailing info@mcconnellinjurylaw.com.
The free consultation can be done by phone, by video, or in person at a time that is convenient for you.
Common Daycare Accidents and Injuries Involving Negligence
Negligence is essentially the failure to exercise reasonable care. When daycare centers and their employees are negligent, their actions and omissions can cause the following types of accidents and injuries – some of which can have deadly or life-altering consequences.
- Choking
- Falls
- Poisoning
- Sexual Abuse and Sexual Assault (by employees or other children left unsupervised)
- Dehydration
- Malnutrition
- Burns
- Assaults or Fights
- Cuts, bruises, and broken bones
- Psychological trauma
Examples of Daycare Center Negligence in Westchester County
The following conduct can be considered negligent if it leads to an accident or injury to a child at a daycare facility in Westchester County:
- Understaffing
- Lack of supervision
- Failure to perform an adequate background check
- Unsafe conditions
- Unsanitary environment
- Delaying or covering up reports of injuries
Suing Negligent Daycares for Compensation
If your child was injured due to a negligent daycare in Westchester, the facility can be held liable and owe compensation for things such as:
- Past and future medical expenses
- Pain and suffering
- Emotional distress
- Counseling costs
The amount of compensation available will depend on the unique facts of any particular case, which is something a Westchester County personal injury lawyer can help you determine after an individualized case assessment.
Hiring a Westchester County Personal Injury Lawyer to Sue a Daycare Center
Personal injury attorneys in Westchester County – including the Law Office of Michael J. McConnell – offer free consultations and work on a contingency fee basis for cases involving daycare center negligence. This means there is no fee or payment to the lawyer unless they win the case.
Here are some things that a lawyer can do to win compensation against a negligent daycare, nursey, preschool, or childcare center:
- Thoroughly investigate the case by preserving and obtaining critical evidence – especially things like video that could expire with the passage of time.
- Provide compassionate legal representation by calmly guiding the child victim and their family through the process of obtaining compensation.
- Depose employees of the daycare center and conduct discovery to prove their negligence.
- Send a strong settlement demand letter and seek to negotiate a settlement that fairly compensates the victim.
- Take the case to trial if necessary by seeking full justice through a jury’s verdict.
If you are interested in learning more about how a Westchester personal injury lawyer can help pursue compensation after a daycare accident, please call the Law Office of Michael J. McConnell right now for a free consultation.
The Law Office of Michael J. McConnell is located at 547 Saw Mill River Road, Suite 1D2, Ardsley, NY 10502. The office has plenty of free parking on site and is located on the first floor.