Child Injury

Avoiding Child Injury in Traffic Crashes

We all want to keep our children safe and secure and help them live to their full potential. Knowing how to prevent leading causes of child injury, like road traffic injuries, is a step toward this goal.

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), every hour, 150 children between ages 0 and 19 are treated in emergency departments for injuries sustained in motor vehicle crashes. More children ages 5 to 19 die from crash-related injuries than from any other type of injury.

Across the United States, injuries are the leading cause of death among children ages 19 and younger.
About 33 children die every day because of injuries.
Each year, nearly 9.2 million children aged 0 to 19 years are seen in emergency departments for injuries, and 12,175 children die as a result of being injured.

Thankfully, parents can play a key role in protecting the children they love from road traffic injuries.

Safety Tips

One of the best protective measures you can take is using seat belts, child safety seats, and booster seats that are appropriate for your child’s age and weight.
Typically, babies should be placed in rear facing car seats until they are at least 1 year old and weigh 20 pounds.
When babies move into front-facing car seats, they should remain in these seats until they are at least 4 years old or weigh 40 pounds.
Children should be seated in booster seats from about age 4 to age 8, or until they reach 4’9” tall.
All children ages 12 and under should be seated in the back seat of vehicles.
If you’re a parent of a teen who is learning to drive, sign an agreement with them to limit risky driving situations, such as having multiple teen passengers and driving at night.

It’s a dangerous world out there on our roads and highways. Keep your kids safe when they’re out there: an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Child Injury Lawyer

Our children are our greatest resource, our Gift from Above. In fact, our kids will simply not know the depth of our love and unconditional commitment to them unless they have their own children one day.

Pursuing and prosecuting a civil claim on behalf of children injured through the negligence of others, whether as the result of an auto accident, doctor negligence, defective product, child abuse, burn injury, or child neglect, is one of our firm’s core missions. We are there to help when the child’s life has changed because of carelessness by a person or company.

Overwhelming, catastrophic personal injury cases, involving injured children are often complex — you need a personal injury lawyer who can provide personal attention to the complex medical problems and economic loss issues.

At the Harris Law Firm, our goal is to help as much as possible to restore normalcy, financial security, and stability, as best we can under the law. Trying to restore some measure of peace of mind, so that parents of injured children may move forward, alleviate some of the emotional hardship and financial burden, are principles involved in child injury claims.

Child injury comes in many forms from different traumatic events:

Accidents

car accident

truck crash

tractor trailer accident

semi truck crash

Defective Products

product defect

toy defect

play equipment defect

playground equipment failure

child safety seat defect

child booster seat defect

Birth injury

pregnancy injury

labor and delivery error

birth defects caused by prescription drug or supplement

nursing malpractice

hospital malpractice

medical malpractice

doctor malpractice

midwife malpractice

Child Abuse

child abuse

child neglect

physical abuse

emotional abuse

Children our among our most vulnerable. They need to be protected. Maybe we can help.

We are experienced. We fight to hold those who harm children accountable in our justice system. Contact us if your child has been seriously hurt and you seek justice.

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Woman Accused of Causing Brain Injury to Child

According to reports, a North Naples woman is accused of abusing a 5 month old baby causing brain injury. The allegation is that the babysitter caused the child injury, resulting in brain injury marked by vomiting, shaking, and going limp. The babysitter has been charged with aggravated child abuse and is in jail without bond.

The babysitter has claimed, according to reports, that the child was harmed when a toy struck the child’s head. The child’s brain injury was reportedly not accidental per treating doctors. Deputies claim the babysitter is the one responsible for the child injury.

Simply a very sad story, whatever the facts may really turn out to be (again, the criminal charges are allegations only at this point).

Children are our most precious gifts, and our must vulnerable. As parents and caregivers, we want and need to give them the care, guidance, and love, to help them fulfill their potential and purpose. We all have to do better.

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Child Burned by Electrical Transformer

According to the Sarasota Herald Tribune, a 6 year old boy suffered a severe burn injury when he was outside playing near an allegedly defective electrical transformer outside his home. The young boy suffered severe electrical burns over much of his body.

According to the report, The 6 year old reached inside and touched a live wire. The electric shock lifted the boy off his feet, scorching his face and arms, and melting his clothes to his skin.

A neighbor performed CPR to restart the boy’s heart before he was taken to Tampa General Hospital, where the six year old was in intensive care for more than two weeks, often on a ventilator and feeding tube.

Doctors grafted skin from the back of his thighs and his bottom onto his charred torso. Doctors had to cut dead tissue to save parts of the boy’s body. He was in the hospital for more than 2 months.

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High Chair Recall

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled 1.2 million Graco Products high chairs, according to reports. According to the CPSC, that the risk of child injury is high, and that to date it knows of 24 incidents in which the high chairs have tipped over due to: screws holding the front legs of the high chair can loosen and fall out and cracking plastic brackets, resulting in child injury.

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