Day
Care Center Negligence
Hot Water Burns
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1.95
million dollar settlement for burn injuries. |
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Attorney
- Ken Berkowitz
Spring 2001
Blume Goldfaden
partner, Ken Berkowitz, recently obtained a $1.95 million settlement
for injuries to a Mendham infant scalded by hot water at a day care center. The accident occurred on Feb. 15, 1999, at a day
care center run in a Bernardsville home. The 8-month-old plaintiff
was at the kitchen sink, when the day care employee was distracted
by another child and the infant plaintiff knocked the faucet
with her foot, making the water hot. The child suffered first
and second degree burns on her legs and feet that left her with
scarred feet and toes and psychological damage. She was taken
by ambulance to the emergency room of St. Barnabas Hospital
in Livingston where she remained hospitalized for the next month
and underwent multiple debridements and skin grafts. The child
returned for two and a half months of outpatient care until
June 1999 and probably will need further surgeries to stretch
her burned and engrafted skin to accommodate her growth.
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Day
Care Center Negligence
Hot Water Burns |
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