Child Injury Lawyer Blog
By Scott A. Marks, Attorney and David Wolf, Attorney
Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network
In California, day care centers / child care centers are licensed and regulated by the California Department of Social Services. Before selecting a child care center, parents, guardians, and caregivers should do their best to investigate the child care center, ask a lot of questions, and make an informed decision. California has created a search tool on the California Department of Social Services website to assist parents, guardians, and caregivers in their respective searches for day care centers. See California Search for a Licensed Facility. For instance, a search of the Woodland Hills, California area revealed 22 licensed child care centers. For each child care center, there is an address, license or facility number, telephone number, and capacity amount (i.e. number of children that can be cared for in the facility). Choosing the right day care center can have a profound effect on your child. Good day care centers will properly supervise your child and protect the child during a parent’s work day. Unfortunately, there are many day care center that fail to follow the applicable regulations, fail to supervise the children, and fail to operate a child care center that is clean, safey, and free from hazards. If a child has suffered personal injuries as a result of day care / child care negligent supervision or negligent maintenance, a California child injury lawyer / attorney can help guide a parent through many complicated issues including medical treatment, medical bills, insurance claims, and the court system.
In Santa Clara, California and other States, school nurse perform a vital function every day. They are there to help supervise, examine, and care for school children. At times, teachers, administrators, school employees, parents, and visitors need the assistance and expertise of a school nurse while on school grounds. Eileen Bowden, a school nurse, collapsed and died after she helped save someone’s life. She was called into action when a man needed help at a school function. Eileen along with another person administered CPR. The incident took place at the Santa Clara (California) High School. Ms. Bowden helped save softball coach John Rahbar.
In King City, California, an 11 year old girl (Ester Rubio) recently died. She had been shot several times at a soccer match at King City High School. She was shot in the stomach. Ester received medical care at Stanford Medical Center and at Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose, California. Three juvenile criminal defendants were arrested in the shooting.
Children love playing pretend with toy guns. Unfortunately, a simple toy gun can be mistaken for a weapon which, in turn, can lead to dangerous and deadly consequences. In Palmdale, California, a deputy sheriff shot a 15 year old who was playing with a toy gun. Apparently, the child was playing “cops and robbers” and pointed the gun at a deputy sheriff / police officer. Since the toy resembled a real gun, the deputy responded by shooting the teenager.
The United States Department of Health and Human Resources has a website that has a great reference tool for parents and caregivers with children in day care centers and child care centers. Each state regulates day care centers / child care centers through a state specific administrative code and / or policy manual. Go to 
In Mission Viejo, California, a 4 year old girl (Kayley Ishii) died as a result of blunt force trauma. Kayley apparently climbed into a front loading washing machine. Thereafter, it is suspected that her toddler brother may have hit a start switch or button. Since the entry into the washing machine was only 20 inches from the floor and the start button was accessible to a young child as well, this tragedy took place.
A San Diego, California jury awarded parents $16 million in a medical malpractice case where the parents’ child died during delivery. The parents alleged that the doctors not only committed medical malpractice but also concealed the baby’s true cause of death in the autopsy report. The parents claimed that they were told that their baby died of lung disease when in fact, the baby died of asphyxia caused by umbilical cord strangulation while the baby was lodged in the birth canal.
The parents of a teenage girl filed a wrongful death lawsuit following the death of their 18 year old daughter. The girl was shot and killed by Huntington Beach police officers when they responded to a 911 call about a woman walking with a knife in a park. The girl had been partying the previous night and after getting into a fight with her mother, who she attacked with a knife and cut, left the house with the knife. The teenager was later seen at the park with the knife. When told by police to give up the knife, the girl refused and told that police that she was on drugs and to kill her. The girl began running toward the police with the knife and was shot 15 times by policy when she came within eight feet of the officers.