By Ryan E. Alekman, Attorney and David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network In Massachusetts, child safety advocates are trying to get tougher or more restrictive All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) legislation put in place. Currently, Massachusetts laws allows a child 10 years of age and older to ride…
By Scott Zahler, Attorney and David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network In Georgia, a 21 month old child died as a result of being left unattended in a parked van while the mother was working at an elementary school. The incident happened at Samuel E. Hubbard Elementary…
By Ryan E. Alekman, Attorney and David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network The Food and Drug Administration is considering the possibility of putting a tanning bed ban in place for children under the age of 18. Medical experts argue that there are known dangers from ultraviolet light…
By Kevin Leach, Attorney and David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network In Virginia, families of children with autism had succeeded in getting a new bill into the House that would have required many health insurance providers to cover a treatment called “applied behavioral analysis.” But businesses and…
By David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network A mother’s piercing screams brought the Washington state high school wrestling championships to a sudden halt in Tacoma recently. The woman’s seventeen month old child had just slipped through a gap in the bleachers at the Tacoma Dome, and had…
By Al Thiel, Attorney and David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network Sergeant Louis Carlos of the Santa Fe, New Mexico Police Department was present at the hospital when the two year old son of Jennifer Stephenson and a Mr. Apodaca was brought into the emergency room with…
By David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network Aaron Pace of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was babysitting twenty month old Suliaman Orrell Kirkland recently, with other family members present in the home. Pace, who refers to himself as the child’s godfather, allegedly wet a rag with Drano and applied it…
The phrase, “you can find anything on the internet,” now has a new meaning thanks to Craigslist. The free classified website has brought together buyers and sellers dealing in boats, automobiles, and pets. Recently, Craigslist has also facilitated a human organ transplant. Recently, Daniel Flood of New York received a…
By David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network The Saulk Institute for Biological Studies has released a new research report that promises to shed light on both Autism and ADD. It looks at how the mind moves its attention from one thing to another. In the report, researchers…
By Kevin Leach, Attorney and David Wolf, Attorney Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network A New Hampshire organization called the Commission to Prevent Childhood Obesity recently presented fourteen recommendations for preventing childhood obesity to New Hampshire governor, John Lynch. The recommendations are: 1. For New Hampshire to create statewide rules…