School Child Sustains Catastrophic And Life Threatening Injuries While At Private School - Educators May Be Held Liable
In a recent case students failed to follow orders of a substitute teacher and a fight broke out. The teacher failed to intervene in the fight despite being within sight of and earshot of the horseplay. A student was held upside down with his head pointing to the floor resulting in a spinal cord injury and was rendered a quadriplegic. Medical expenses were paid by his health insurance, a lien was asserted, and his future life care planning expenses were estimated to be more than $12,000,000, including $1.8 million in lost earning capacity.
A lawsuit was filed against the school district alleging improper supervision of the students. The case was settled for $18.4 million dollars, which included an $11.4 million dollar structure with the purchase of a single premium tax free annuity. Unfortunately accidents involving children which result in such catastrophic injuries in schools, colleges and universities are becoming more common. Many times we are approached by parents whose precious children have been injured by other students, teachers, as well as by visitors to the school premises.
If your child is injured at a school and the accident was the result of inadequate supervision or negligent security or is someone else’s fault, you may have a right to make an accident compensation claim. We know how much trauma a family goes through when a child is injured at a school that was supposed to be a place of safety. Serious injury to a child at school deserves maximum monetary damages and the responsible person or institution must be held accountable.
The experienced catastrophic injury and school accident lawyers at Reiff and Bily have been handling school injury cases for families whose children have been injured while at school. For a free, no-obligation consultation, please contact one of our experienced school accident lawyers at 1-800-421-9595 or online at www.reiffandbily.com.
