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House votes to require liability insurance for day-care centers

 
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The Oklahoma House of Representatives passed legislation today that would require home-based day care centers to carry business liability insurance.

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Edna Pittman poses with her children, Demarion, age 3, Destini, 5 and Deja, 10, at Gary Homsey's Law Offices in Oklahoma City in this Jan. 2007 photo by John Clanton.

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The House passed the bill 93-7. It will now go to the Senate for consideration.

The bill, called Demarion's Law, was drafted after The Oklahoman printed an article in January that disclosed the plight of 3-year-old Demarion Pittman.

Demarion suffered extensive brain damage after an Oklahoma City home day care operator returning from a bowling field trip forgot about the toddler and left him in a sweltering vehicle for more than two hours last August.

When family members sought help in paying his mounting medical bills, they said they made a startling discovery: The Oklahoma Department of Human Services licenses day cares, but there is no licensing requirement that day cares carry business liability insurance.

The family already has maxed out its $1 million lifetime benefit on its major medical insurance coverage and has been told future care is likely to cost millions more.

Since the accident, Demarion's mother, Edna Pittman, has been on a crusade to change the law so the same thing doesn't happen to other families.

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