child stuck with syringe at school….. do you sue?
2 weeks ago my sister calls me in a panic to inform me of a little boy at her sons school who had been stuck with a syringe in the playground. the boy is in the third grade and they still dont know if any disease has been caught. the kicker is the school is just feet away froma public park and the school had actually put a fence in for safety. what they didnt do is put up the locked gate and instead of the gate there was an open hole. my question is this what would you do if it was your child? do you sue in case of long term medical bills from an impending infection? if so who do you sue the city park for not patroling security better, the school board for there good idea of safety gone bad, the teacher who was not monitoring the childeren or the grounds keeper who should be doing a thourough cleaning of the playground everyday. could it have been prevented if say the school board implemented a metal detector cleaning every morniing
You quit panicking and back off from being sue-happy. First, take the kid to the doctor and have him checked out. Your first thought should be to your child health, not who you can sue.
Second, consult a lawyer, but don’t go in stating off the bat you want to sue everybody. That’s a great way to get taken for a ride by an unscrupulous attorney. Furthermore, there is such a thing as a "reasonable person" standard in law, and I question whether the school hasn’t already met that. How do you know the school doesn’t check the playground in the morning? Why couldn’t the syringe have been left between the morning check & the time of recess? Most importantly, how did the child get stuck with the syringe? An accident while picking it up, or was he playing with it? There isn’t nearly enough information here to be jumping to a lawsuit already.
October 30th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
You quit panicking and back off from being sue-happy. First, take the kid to the doctor and have him checked out. Your first thought should be to your child health, not who you can sue.
Second, consult a lawyer, but don’t go in stating off the bat you want to sue everybody. That’s a great way to get taken for a ride by an unscrupulous attorney. Furthermore, there is such a thing as a "reasonable person" standard in law, and I question whether the school hasn’t already met that. How do you know the school doesn’t check the playground in the morning? Why couldn’t the syringe have been left between the morning check & the time of recess? Most importantly, how did the child get stuck with the syringe? An accident while picking it up, or was he playing with it? There isn’t nearly enough information here to be jumping to a lawsuit already.
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October 30th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
No don’t sue…it’s not the schools fault…as far as the part not being patrolled to your standards, doesn’t mean they don’t do it to the citys standards. Its a terrible situation, but the fact of the matter is its nobody’s fault…
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October 30th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
About 2 years ago, my son was in his class at school when another boy stapled his finger…..I mean the staple went in one side of the finger and out the other. The school nurse called me to come get him; she said she didn’t even want to try to get it out. So we went to Med-Point, an urgent care clinic. I just paid my copay and never even considered suing. After much hesitation, the insurance company finally denied payment, and I’m stuck with a four-hundred-some dollar bill to pay, and since I don’t have it, the whole network of doctors won’t see my family anymore. Don’t necessarily go crazy with it, but for sure, get a lawyer to make sure they pay any charges, etc.
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