Every year, millions of parents across the United States place their children’s lives and safety in the hands of school-bus drivers. Yet, approximately 17,000 children, on average, are injured or killed in school-bus accidents every year, according to some statistics. While many school-bus-related injuries are sustained in non-crash incidents, many are sustained in crashes caused […]
Daycare Negligence Can Cause Serious Injury or Death
Every day, throughout the United States, parents turn over their children’s care to others while they go off to work. When relatives or trusted family friends are not available to provide childcare services, daycare centers may be most parents’ next-best option. As organized businesses specializing in the care of children, daycare centers are reasonably expected […]
Protective Barriers to Prevent Children’s Serious Burns Are Now Required for Glass-front Fireplaces
Gas fireplaces often come with glass fronts that may lead parents to believe their children are protected from burns they might receive if their children got too near the fire. But, the glass fronts, themselves, have caused severe burns to children who have placed their hands on the glass. As reported by officials with the […]
IKEA Recalls Children’s Swings for Fall Hazard
Children’s toys and other products intended for children’s use are purchased throughout the country by parents every day and are expected to provide our children with hours of fun, entertainment, and safe diversion. The sad truth is that so many of these toys and products are defective in some way, making them dangerous to the […]
Child Injury Attorney Jeff Killino Urges the Federal Government and All State Governments to Require Seat Belts on Every School Bus
How many times have you heard someone ask, “Why aren’t seat belts required on school buses?” Parents and organizations that advocate for children’s safety and health have been crying out for the installation of seat belts on all school buses for several decades, yet their pleas have gone largely unheeded. Our children deserve and have […]
Dream On Me “Incredible Play Yards” Can Strangle Small Children
Parents often place their children in play pens or yards both to entertain them and to keep them protected from the harm that can occur when small children are free to roam living areas on their own. Depending on how these play yards are designed or constructed, however, the play yards themselves can pose hazards […]
12-Year-Old Tamir Rice’s Wrongful Death: How Might Similar Tragedies Be Prevented?
A twelve-year-old Cleveland, Ohio, boy named Tamir Rice lost his life on November 22, 2014, in an incident that never should have happened. Tamir was reportedly waving a toy gun at people at a local playground when an adult male called 9-1-1 and alerted police of his actions, stating twice that the gun was probably […]
Tragic School Bus Crash Leaves 2 Young Children and One Adult Dead, 27 Injured
Tuesday, December 2, 2014, had been a school day like any other for the young children of East Knoxville, Tennessee’s Sunnyview Primary and Chilhowee Intermediate Schools. The children were being transported home on that rainy afternoon in their respective school buses—one carrying kindergarten through second-grade children from Sunnyview Primary and the other, third- through fifth-grade […]
Graco is Recalling Nearly 5 Million Strollers for Finger Amputation Hazard
Parents from coast to coast wheel their young children in strollers along sidewalks, zoo and amusement park pathways, malls, oceanside boardwalks, and public parks on a routine and often daily basis. Mothers stroll through their neighborhoods with their children in strollers, often meeting up with many others who are doing the same. What do all […]
Laundry Detergent Packets or Pods Are Extremely Dangerous to Your Children’s Health
Laundry-detergent packets, also known as laundry-detergent pods, have been a boon to detergent manufacturers, who marketed the pods to busy mothers attracted by anything that made their never-ending household chores easier and more convenient to manage. The pods were first sold in 2010. But, their dangers began to be discovered as early as 2012, when […]
