Recently, our experienced daycare and childcare injury lawyers have experienced an increase in inquiries from parents and filed cases against daycare centers for drugging incidents across Texas. In Plano, a toddler was poisoned by drugs in a vape pen on her first day attending a daycare center. In Abilene, unqualified caregivers gave a toddler Benadryl to make her sleepy and easier to watch.
These incidents can also happen when medication is not properly stored at a center, or a child is given too much of an approved medication.
As you can imagine, drugging incidents where children ingest unapproved medications or illegal substances are dangerous and can seriously harm a child’s health. Little ones can experience severe allergic reactions, be poisoned, and ingest carcinogens. When it comes to vape pens, just small amounts of nicotine exposure can be fatal for a toddler.
Our legal team recognizes that helping a child after a daycare drugging incident can be shocking and overwhelming for parents. When exploring legal options to hold a daycare center accountable for your child’s drugging and subsequent injuries, you may want to know what you can expect. That’s why we help explain “damages” in a daycare drugging lawsuit and the compensation you might expect.
What Are Damages in a Lawsuit Against a Daycare Center?
Damages are legal jargon for the compensation owed to a family once a negligent daycare center is held accountable for harming a child via improper medication or exposure to drugs at the facility. In a daycare drugging lawsuit, the court will examine all the different ways that a child and his or her family were harmed because the daycare center failed to follow Texas daycare laws, also known as minimum standards.
Read this article to better understand economic and noneconomic damages in a daycare drugging lawsuit.
What Damages Can My Family Recover in a Daycare Drugging Lawsuit?
When filing a daycare drugging lawsuit, damages can cover the monetary, physical, emotional, and psychological impacts of a child’s improper medication experience or exposure to illegal drugs at the daycare center. Texas families can be compensated for:
Economic Damages
- Medical bills for current, ongoing, and future treatments to help a child heal from exposure to unapproved medications or illegal drugs. For example, the health impacts from carcinogens in a vape pen at a daycare center may not be immediate.
- Resources such as play therapy sessions to help a child process the traumatic drugging incident in a healthy way.
- Additional child care costs, such as a babysitter or nanny after removing a child from a daycare center following a drugging incident.
Noneconomic Damages
- Developmental milestone regressions that a child may experience, such as forgetting potty training or speaking like a baby.
- Experiencing severe behavioral issues such as extreme separation anxiety from a parent or not trusting authority figures.
- Loss of enjoyment of life, meaning the trauma a child experienced at the daycare center caused them to isolate away from friends or stop enjoying typical child-friendly activities.
- Mental anguish from the trauma of experiencing an allergic reaction to a medication or health issue spurred by exposure to drugs that can manifest via nightmares, disrupted sleep patterns, or bed wetting.
- Pain and suffering of the child and the parents helping a child following a traumatic experience like a drugging incident.
How Can You Help My Child After a Drugging Incident at a Local Daycare Center?
Our team of experienced and compassionate daycare and childcare injury lawyers at The Button Law Firm is dedicated to advocating for you and your family if your child was improperly medicated or exposed to illegal drugs at a daycare center anywhere in Texas. We are ready to listen and fight for your family to get justice and move forward. Our lawyers at The Button Law Firm are recognized on the prestigious Texas Super Lawyers list, and we can help guide you after a traumatizing incident involving your child. We work on contingency, meaning we don’t charge you or collect any upfront fees to get started on your case. Get a free case evaluation by calling us at 214-699-4409, emailing us at [email protected], or filling out a contact form.
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