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Summertime Safety and Apartment Swimming Pools With Memorial Day traditionally marking the start of summertime, a growing number of public pools are reopening across the country. These include thousands of pools across the United States serving apartment communities. As pools open, it behooves us all to take a moment to refresh ourselves on some important overall pool safety practices to best protect ourselves and our loved ones this summer. Protecting Against Apartment Pool Drowning An average of 3,500 people die…

Be Aware:Understand the Most Commonplace Summertime Injuries Even though COVID-19 stay at home directives loom over most the United States, there is increasing talk – even among acclaimed infectious disease specialists – that we are likely to begin seeing easing of the isolation orders associated with the coronavirus pandemic within coming weeks. In other words, odds are growing a bit stronger every day that most people in the United States will be able to engage in certain activities typically associated…

In 2019, 8 children died while enrolled at unlicensed daycare centers. Of these daycare centers, 7 were operated out of private homes. In today’s post, the daycare injury lawyer at The Doan Law firm gives a recap of these 8 needless deaths and offers advice to parents who may be considering placing their children in “home-based” daycare.

With summer only weeks away, our law firm’s accidental drowning database has already documented a sharp increase (> 40%) in the number of accidental drowning in April versus the first three months of the year. We have also noted that some of the accidents have occurred in either abandoned or functional open-pit rock and materials quarrying operations. Today, the drowning accident lawyer at The Doan Law Firm takes a look at two drowning incidents that occurred in rock quarries. He…

Visitors to our website are aware that, according to theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, drowning accidents are responsible for an average of 10 deathsper day, with many of those deaths occurring in the childhood to young adult age groups. However, there is relatively little data available regarding those whosurvive such accidents and make up a subgroup that we callvictims of near-drowning accidents. In today’s post, the drowning accident lawyer at The Doan Law Firm will discuss a medical condition…