Paul J Napoli Will Help You Win Your Personal Injury Case

Having a child who is bullied at school is a parent’s worst fear. To have your child physically and emotionally abused by another child can make any parents cringe. Schools are supposed to be considered safe havens for many children, a place where they can go and not have to worry about being threatened or injured, but for many children it is not. Sometimes the bullying is so severe that the child being bullied suffers injuries that are only healed by surgery. Like in the recent case of an 11 year old boy who was beaten up so badly in school that the child was left needing brain surgery after he were punched in the face. After the child was brought to a local hospital it was discovered that the boy had a fractured skull that could only be repaired by doctors doing surgery that will leave the boy with three metal plates in his head. Attorney Paul J Napoli has dealt with personal injury cases similar to this and sees the continuing trend of bullies in school. The young boy’s parents filed a lawsuit for over $3,000,000 against the entire school for the incident which occurred in the end of September as the children were lining up to go back into school after recess.

According to Paul J Napoli, personal injury lawsuits can be filed when the client has been injured financially, or physically as the result of another. In this case the child and his parents filed the lawsuit against the boy’s school, after school officials ignored complaints that stem back to almost three years before. These complaints went on for three years before the boy was so severely injured that he needed surgery. In Paul J Napoli’s eyes, this is unacceptable. For a child to undergo bullying is terrible, but for a child to suffer at the hands of another child for three years before something is done about the situation is appalling. To make this situation more tragic, the boy was punched a day earlier by the exact same boy and reported it to his teacher and the school secretary, and neither of them did anything about it, the boys parents were not even informed of the accident.

The lawsuit that was filed by the boys parent’s claims that the teachers and authorities at the school were careless and negligent when it came to protecting their child. Not only did the school not inform the parents about the first incident that occurred the day before, the school also allowed the child to be bullied for years leading up to the incident. In every school district there are laws that govern what teachers are responsible for, and protecting the children who attend the school and the boy’s school did not abide by these laws. Paul J Napoli has dealt with personal injury cases similar to this in the past and in many of these cases the victim has not only suffered emotional problems, but has suffered permanent injuries such as short-term memory loss, or headaches.