A Dedicated Injury Law Firm

Cases involving accidental drowning, pool injury, spa injury, drain entrapment, and diving injury, are horrifying, physically and emotionally devastating. In most instances, they are completely preventable.

Any death related to drowning, drain entrapment, pool equipment failure, pool barrier or pool fence failure, pool design defect, or pool owner negligence, is a tragedy for which comfort or peace may seem permanently out of reach.

While some pool and spa tragedies may find contribution on the part of adults not closely monitoring children, in many unfortunate cases, even when adults are present, children are sucked under the water and entrapped by faulty pool drains and spa drains.

These injuries are often catastrophic, resulting in permanent, life-altering physical damage, disfigurement, and sadly, death. 

Pool Injury Statistics Are Horrifying, and Represent Changed Livesand Altered Families

Consider, for example, that although drowning rates are in decline, more than 1,000 children die each year due to swimming accidents in the U.S. and one third of these occur in swimming pools. It takes under two inches of water and less than five minutes for a child to drown.

If you think you have a swimming pool accident claim, then please contact an injury lawyer at our firm as soon as possible.

Drowning continues to be the second-leading cause of injury-related deaths among children. Even more children undergo emergency care for nonfatal submersion injuries. This type of injury can cause brain damage resulting in long-term disabilities.

Adults Are Susceptible to Pool Drowning and Pool Injury

Adults are not immune from swimming pool accidents, especially when they combine swimming with alcohol. Spinal cord injuries can also result from diving into water that is too shallow. If a swimming pool owner fails to post adequate water depth warnings, he or she may be negligent.

Most swimming pool injuries occur due to a failure to properly secure a pool from small children, improper construction or design of a swimming pool, and/or failure to maintain the pool in good condition. Liability for swimming pool accidents can involve three types of law - negligence or tort law, premises liability law, and product liability law.

Who Is Responsible?  How Will You Move Forward?

While no one wants to have to take legal action to ensure that the injured family member’s future, including the costs of advanced and specialized medical care, surgical reconstruction, rehabilitation, advanced therapies, and special programs to help promote and secure an enriched, happy, and fulfilling, life, the fact is most liable parties are not going to offer to pay for all of these things.

At least . . . not willingly.

You can take legal steps to immediately protect and secure your rights and your family’s legal rights.

Injury Lawyer Serving Families

Contact us: we are aggressive and compassionate counsel who stand by you, work hard for you and your family, and seek to hold all responsible parties accountable in our civil justice system.

We move to secure the pool injury victim’s future as best we know how. We provide fair and honest evaluations, provide status updates, and return phone calls. Your family is our cause, and justice is what we seek to accomplish with you in mind.

With your input and involvement, we move your case swiftly, seeing justice as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Contact us today.  Your information is confidential.

Diving Injury
 

While many States have passed pool safety laws designed to prevent swimming pool accidents and drain entrapment or drain suction injury, as well as diving injury, unfortunately, diving injury continues with catastrophic results for the injury victim and family.

Swimming pool diving injuries stay a frequent source of litigation due to the fact they are often severe and avoidable. Diving problems can often end result in traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury. By using some precautions, diving incidents may be avoided.

If you or a cherished family member was involved in the swimming pool diving accident, then consider some the following questions: was warning symptoms present close to or around the swimming pool? What was the swimming pool width? What was the lighting like? What was the pool depth? Was pool depth marked, and if so, how? Were other people diving prior to the diving accident at issue?

An knowledgeable personal injury lawyer at our firm may be able to ascertain if negligence was involved on the part with the pool owner, seller of the swimming pool, or builder of the swimming pool.

Near Drowning Accident

A nonfatal submersion, or near-drowning event, while even temporary or lasting only a few moments, can lead to oxygen deprivation. This oxygen deprivation, in turn, can lead to brain damage or brain injury.

Unfortunately, such brain injury is often irreversible, leading the pool victim to lapse into a coma or vegetative state.  Sadly, death results when artificial means of life support are shut down by medical personnel and the family.

Submersion can occur in several circumstances:

· inexperienced swimmer

· inattentive lifeguard

· negligent lifeguard

· child swimmer who is mistakenly submerged or towed under the surface by an inexperienced swimmer or non-swimming child

· pool owner inattention

· pool owner negligence

· lack of supervision

· drain cover entrapment

· spa drain entrapment

· pool drain suction

· spa drain suction

There are, of course, other circumstances which can lead to near-drowning and resulting brain damage.

You can take action.  Seeking damages for the cost of medical treatment, hospitalization, innovative medical treatments and therapies, rehabilitation, pain and suffering, and loss of enjoyment of life are several forms of compensation that may be available to your family.

Drain Entrapment Injury• Spa Drain Entrapment

Importantly, your efforts, if successful, may also likely lead to prevention of such personal injury and wrongful death occurring to other families.

Pool drain covers, spa drain covers, whirlpool drain covers, all appear innocent enough.

The problem is they have suction power which can literally suck hair, skin, and other body parts with such force that a child, or even an adult, can become lodged into the drain itself.

This is called “drain entrapment.”  It often leads to catastrophic injury, or death. In light of new federal state laws and requirements, it should not occur at all.

Catastrophic injuries resulting from spa drain entrapment, pool drain entrapment, defectively designed pools and spas, or because the pool or spa lacks basic safety features, often requires a thorough investigation.  It requires a knowledge of the applicable law, rules, and regulations, as well as what experts to retain to perform a prompt and thorough investigation.

These cases are often complex and expensive to prosecute, requiring critical review analysis and review of the key evidence, not only by the attorney, but by appropriate experts selected by your attorney.

After performing our investigation, we move to swiftly civilly prosecute the responsible parties we reasonably conclude are accountable for the catastrophic injury or death resulting from the spa drain entrapment, pool drain entrapment, or swimming pool accident.

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