Everyday throughout Mississippi working parents drop their children off at a childcare center and presume that their children will be properly supervised and kept safe. Parents are increasingly more dependent on childcare because many families cannot make ends meet without two incomes. Some studies reveal that sixty percent of young children not yet in school participate in childcare. As parents, our Mississippi personal injury attorneys understand the fear that can accompany entrusting the safety of your children to others.
The nightly news and daily newspapers are full of accounts of the abuse and neglect of children. While many parents meticulously investigate a Mississippi childcare center before placing their child in the care of its childcare providers, sometimes institutions that provide supervision and activities for children fly under the radar for years before evidence of misconduct and abuse becomes public. If your child is injured, abused or neglected at a Mississippi childcare center, you may be able to seek financial compensation to obtain compensation for emotional or physical injuries.
Childcare centers in Mississippi may be liable for a variety of conduct that causes injury to children including negligence, which is effectively a lack of reasonable care to provide for children’s safety. Much more troubling are intentional acts of misconduct like physical assault or battery and sexual battery. Children are particularly vulnerable because they may have difficulty articulating mistreatment, neglect and abuse, or they may be afraid of reprisals for reporting the mistreatment. Childcare centers have a legal obligation to provide reasonable care for the safety and health of children entrusted to their childcare facility.
Many childcare centers fail to abide by federal and state regulations or their own safety practices and procedures, which may serve as a basis for imposing liability for injuries to the children in their care. Our Mississippi childcare injury attorneys handle the full spectrum of accidental and intentional injuries to children in Mississippi childcare centers based on many types of inappropriate conduct including:
- Failure to abide by health and safety laws
- Inadequate playground safety
- Sexual abuse or molestation
- Lack of proper supervision
- Defective toys or toys that are not age appropriate (i.e. choking hazards)
- Motor vehicle accidents involving buses and vans
- Childcare worker negligence
- Insufficient screening or supervision of childcare workers
Although childcare facilities are subject to licensing and safety standards, some childcare centers cut corners and fail to comply with licensing requirements or health and safety regulations. When childcare centers fail to conduct adequate background checks before hiring childcare workers or fail to exercise diligence in monitoring facilities for potential hazards, children are put at unnecessary risk of injury. If you child has suffered serious injury while in the care of a childcare center, the experienced Mississippi childcare injury lawyers at Barrett Law can evaluate your case and advise you of your rights and options. The experienced Mississippi daycare injury attorneys at Barrett Law have been providing tenacious representation to childcare injury victims for over 75 years. We provide diligent legal representation and impassioned advocacy so we invite you to call us today at 662-834-2376 to learn how we can help.