If You Accept My Daughter’s Medical Malpractice Case, Will You Guarantee She Will Receive Money For Her Medical Bills?

The Florida Bar prohibits lawyers from guaranteeing results. However, even absent that prohibition I would not guarantee anything, especially in a medical malpractice case. Studies show that medical malpractice cases are among the most difficult type of case to win in court, second only to products liability cases. Depending on the study, only 27-36 percent [...]

Toddlers: Really Just Little Cavemen

There’s a new book out that discusses an interesting approach to dealing with toddler behavior. Since children’s left brains don’t grow to anything resembling maturity until as late as age 5, they are incapable of the rationale thought process that the left brain allows. However, their right brains, which are responsible for emotion, creativity and [...]

If My 6-Year-Old Gets Hurts By Another Child, Who Is Liable?

Here’s a question I heard recently: my 6-year-old daughter got injured pretty badly at gymnastics practice by another girl on her team. My daughter says she told the other girl that the stretch they were doing hurt and that the other girl should stop pushing. My daughter broke her pubic bone and tore some muscles, [...]

Your Child, the Tween & Sex

We live in a hypersexualized culture where young girls already want to be ’sexy’ even while still believing in Santa Claus. Sharon Maxwell’s new book The Talk: What Your Kids Need to Hear from You About Sex is a fantastic resource to help parents understand today’s youth sexual culture and jump start a productive dialog [...]

How to Prevent a Common Cause of Death Among Children

Even if summer hasn’t officially arrived in Florida yet this year, the warm weather certainly has. And with warm weather, we all spend more time near water. Whether you prefer the ocean, the pool or lakes and rivers, you should know a few simple safety tips because playing near water can quickly become very dangerous.
Every [...]

Florida Legislature Lets Bad Child Waiver Bill Die

The Florida Legislative session is closed and the Florida Child Injury Lawyer Blog is pleased to report that the Florida Legislature did the right thing in letting a proposed child waiver law die in committee.
The details of this bill were discussed in this previous Florida Child Injury Lawyer Blog post. The Florida Legislature was considering [...]

Childproof Your Home

It’s National Safe Kids week all week and The Florida Child Injury Lawyer wants to recognize this week with even more tips on keeping your child safe.
Childproofing your home is one of the most important aspects of ensuring child safety because parents and children naturally spend quite a bit of time at home.
The trick to [...]

An All-Ages Guide to Child Safety

This week is National Safe Kids Week and in recognition of that, The Child Injury Lawyer will provide some safety tips developed by Safe Kids USA after conducting a study of accidental child injuries.
Not surprisingly, the injury risks children are exposed to change as the grow up, but this study is the first to analyze [...]

Preventing Child Sports Injuries In Girls

My recent post about an increase in child injuries as a result of overuse in sports reminded me of an interesting interview I heard with the author of a recent book.
Michael Sokolove wrote Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women’s Sports and has some very important things to say about sports [...]