Children are extremely vulnerable to injury, particularly brain injuries. The leading cause of death and disability to children in the United States is head trauma. There is about million children injured every year and about 165,000 children who require hospitalization all related to head injuries.
Usually a child injury lawyer is needed to determine who is at fault when a child suffers a brain injury of some sort. a lawyer can also can help the injured party obtain compensation for medical expenses as well as long-term care compensation by filing a personal injury lawsuit.
A child is at the greatest risk for sustaining a head/brain injury when they are involved in an automobile accident, either crashes or rollover collisions. But, vehicular accidents are not the only cause of many the head traumas. Other causes of serious head injury to children include: bicycle accidents; pedestrian accidents; accidents in the bathroom; accidents in or around swimming pools; skiing and other outdoor sports or activities; physical abuse. As you would expect following a car accident all of these causes of injury can easily lead to lawsuits if there is negligence involved on the part of someone else.
The only time that an injury sustained by a child might not lead to a lawsuit, is if the injury is caused by another child. Generally it is the parents who feel responsible when their child does something wrong, particularly harms another child. But, depending upon the age of the child it is impossible to start a lawsuit for child hitting another child and trying to sue the child. In most cases the liable party would be the one who should have been supervising the child at the time that one of the children sustained an injury at the hand of the other; and that is not always the child’s parents. If the child is at school, those who should be supervising the children are generally liable. If the child is in the yard of a neighbor, the parents won’t be held liable for what the child does unless they are in the yard when it happens.
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