Dodgeball Injuries: Another School Personal Injury Case

Recently, it seems that so many personal injury cases are about students being injured at school; either by the safety officers or their friends.

In this case, a New York personal injury attorney would argue that the school is in the wrong for their poor choice to wrangle over a hundred students into the gym and whack each other with soccer balls. In their defense, it was raining out, so they were trying to protect the children from colds... So they had them pummel each other inside.

It would not have been so bad if they had stayed away from the tough and hard soccer balls in favor of the more common, and softer rubber balls. But hey, a ball is a ball right?

As reported by the new York Daily News, Shane Reese, the 12-year-old student who is suing the school, was hit in the face so hard, that his teeth broke. It's unclear how many teeth were broken, but he had just recently had his bridgework repaired from a car accident. The kicker is that he wasn't even playing! He was sitting on the sidelines, because after the work that he had undergone, he wasn't supposed to do anything that could be dangerous for his "just set" teeth.

Reese has been offered $20,000 from New York City to compensate him for his dodgeball injuries, but his personal injury attorney is discussing if that would be even for the additional dentist visits. Also, is that amount enough of a lesson for the teachers who thought that soccer-ball-face-throw was a safe alternative?

New York City schools are having a hard time right now, but if your child has been injured at school due to the poor choice of a teacher or the establishment, it would be another crime not to contact a New York personal injury lawyer. The only way to make the schools better is to point them away from unwanted behaviors.

For example, a physics problem could have deterred this situation. If X amount of students are in a room that is Z by C by V large, and there are B amount of balls, how long would it take for someone to get hurt?