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Daycare centers, like all persons and businesses, have a duty to exercise ?reasonable care? to avoid causing injuries to third parties. If a daycare center fails to exercise reasonable care, and this failure causes injury, they have been negligent. More specifically, the legal theory of ?premises liability? holds owners and operators of land liable for injuries which occur on their property, if the injury was reasonably foreseeable. When a child is placed in the care of a daycare center, the daycare center is essentially acting in the place of the parents. This means that they must exercise a very high degree of care to prevent injuries to the children under their care. Injuries caused by the carelessness of an employee (such as dropping a child), can give rise to liability. Likewise, injuries caused by an unsafe environment at the daycare center (stairs without barriers, exposed light sockets, etc.) would be grounds for a lawsuit. |
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