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Child Injury

When we send our children off to summer camp, we have faith in the professionals and caregivers to keep them safe at all times. We may know that they will be embarking on adventures and partaking in sporting events, but this does not mean that we think that our children will become injured as a result.

If your child was injured at a Texas summer camp, it is important that you consider the circumstances surrounding the acquisition of the injury and ask yourself whether you believe that the summer camp leaders could have prevented such an accident. If you do think that something could have been done to keep your child safer, you may want to read more about how the law works in regard to personal injury cases such as these.

Determining whether negligence was present

Leaders at summer camps as well as the premises in which the summer camp was held have the responsibility to keep your children as safe as is reasonably possible. If there was a clear danger present for your child and the premises did nothing to mitigate this danger, they could be held legally liable if it can be shown that this danger caused your child’s injury.

Bullying at summer camps

In addition, summer camp leaders have the responsibility to recognize if your child is being bullied or abused at summer camp. Children can be cruel, and they have the potential to cause other children injuries and suffering. You may be able to take action against the summer camp organizers if they did not adequately safeguard your child from the harming actions of bullies.

Summer camp injuries and liability waivers

Many summer camps ask that parents sign liability waivers before they send their child to summer camp. While these waivers might go some way toward preventing lawsuits, they do have their limits. Most seriously negligent cases will still be able to be enforced by the law.

If your child has suffered as a result of their summer camp experience, it is important not to accept this as simply something that occurs. Summer camps should be held liable for negligence when children are needlessly hurt.

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Michael Zimmerman

Michael was born in Houston, Texas. His education at Baylor and Texas State Universities earned him a Bachelor of Science degree in 1987. His major was in Biology with a Minor in Chemistry. He finished his legal education at Texas Southern University in 1990, earning a Juris Doctorate from Thurgood Marshall School of Law. He was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1990.

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