Dropping your child off at a friend’s house for a birthday party or playdate is an ordinary part of childhood. You expect scraped knees and minor bumps from time to time. What you do not expect is a call telling you that your child has been seriously injured. Perhaps your child fell from a poorly maintained deck. Maybe a swimming pool was left unsecured, a dog bit your child, a trampoline accident caused a broken bone, or your child suffered a head injury while the adults responsible for supervision were somewhere else. When a child is injured at a birthday party in Massachusetts, parents often have two immediate concerns.
First, is my child going to be okay?
Then comes a much more uncomfortable question: Who is responsible?
That question can be especially difficult when the accident occurred at the home of a friend,
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You already had back pain before the accident. Maybe you had undergone knee surgery years earlier. Perhaps you had a
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