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Parents all across La Crosse expect those they trust their children to will keep the children safe and healthy while in their care. Unfortunately, not everyone values the safety and health of children as their parents do, making it easy for a child to become a victim of another’s negligence, malice, or recklessness.
Most child injuries are preventable, yet people still hurt a child, or allow a child to hurt himself or herself. When these types of injuries happen, it is right to fight for justice for the child.
Nicolet Law is built on family, focused on helping, and dedicated to winning for La Crosse children who suffered injuries at the hands of another person’s negligence. A child should not have to go through life with the physical and emotional scars of another person’s negligence. Contact our La Crosee child injury attorneys for a free case evaluation if your child suffered physical and/or emotional injuries at the hands of a trusted adult, including school teachers.
No child should have to suffer from abusive actions and the injuries those actions cost, whether the injuries are car accident injuries, from a toxic or malfunctioning toy, a playground accident, or an accident at school. While some accidents are the result of a child’s natural curiosity, others are the result of another person’s negligence.
Not only can we identify the causes of your child’s accident, but we can also fight to hold the responsible parties liable for your child’s injuries, and help you obtain the compensation your child deserves.
Child injuries, catastrophic injuries, and death are often preventable.
Causes of some of these accidents include:
Additional injuries could include dog bites, choking injuries, crib injuries, injuries at daycare or school, defective toys, pool and drowning injuries, playground injuries, and school bus injuries. Whatever injuries your child suffers because of another person’s negligence, contact Nicolet Law for a free case evaluation.
Several people or companies could share in the responsibility for a child’s injuries, depending on the injury:
We’ll take the complicated steps of determining who might share in the liability for your child’s injuries. An experienced child injury lawyer will use his or her skill to investigate the accident to learn who should pay for your child’s injuries.
Since a child cannot file a lawsuit, the parent or guardian must file the lawsuit. Depending on the state and the circumstances, the statute of limitations stops until a child turns 18 years of age, at which time, the child has a certain amount of time to file a lawsuit.
However, if your child will incur medical expenses and other damages, hire a lawyer to file a lawsuit on behalf of your child.
When your child suffers injuries because of another person’s actions or inactions, he or she can recover the same types of compensation as an adult, including economic and non-economic damages.
Economic damages. Special damages, generally referred to as economic damages, include:
Non-economic damages. General damages, usually referred to as non-economic damages, include:
Accidents could cause minor, major, or catastrophic injuries, or even death.
Some common injuries a child could suffer include:
Before you do anything else, get immediate medical attention for your child. Take photos of your child’s injuries while at the emergency room. Report the event to the police and the appropriate agency for the school or daycare.
If someone inappropriately touched your child, you need to take immediate action so that it doesn’t have a chance to happen again. Once you file the reports and get your child emergency medical care, contact a child injury lawyer in La Crosse.
One of the parties you might sue is the school district. Other parties might also share in the liability for your child’s injuries. Generally, school bus accidents are the result of a driver’s negligence. The driver might have been driving impaired by alcohol or drugs, distracted, texting, or otherwise breaking the law.
Yes. A responsible adult should watch the children at all times while they are in or near a pool. Even children that can swim well must have adult supervision. You might hold the person responsible for watching the children liable if your child suffers injuries from drowning or other injuries in a pool.
Anyone who has a pool has the responsibility of keeping the pool safe. That includes making sure the pool has appropriate fencing and child-proof gates, maintaining pool equipment, maintaining pool drains, and ensuring that no children are unsupervised in or near the pool.
If a child’s toy is defective and causes injuries to your child, you could bring a product liability lawsuit against the toy manufacturer. In some cases, the toy’s designer and/or seller could share in the liability. You must show that the toy is defective, so don’t throw it away. You must also show that your child was using the toy as intended.
You can bring a wrongful death lawsuit against a person or entity that is responsible for the death of your child. A child’s parents or guardians can file the lawsuit. In some cases, the court might appoint a representative to bring the lawsuit.
Those who might share in the liability for your child’s death include:
First and foremost, insurance companies are in business to make money. They don’t care about you or your child. They only care about their bottom lines. They will attempt to twist anything you say to use it to either deny your claim or to offer you a pittance that might not even cover your child’s injuries.
A child injury lawyer knows that insurance companies pull this stunt and, because of their experience, have a better chance of avoiding that trap. An attorney can not only expedite recovery, but in most cases can maximize recovery so that you receive the compensation you truly deserve.
We have handled numerous child injury cases.
Some of our results include:
While these are only past results and cannot guarantee an outcome in any particular case, rest assured that the caring professionals at Nicolet Law Accident & Injury Lawyers bring our collective experience to bear in securing justice for our fellow families in La Crosse.
Just like adults, each child has the right to recover the compensation he or she deserves for his injuries. And, just like adults, a child incurs medical expenses for those injuries. In some cases, the injuries a child suffers could cause permanent disabilities. As a parent or guardian, you might need money for ongoing medical expenses, including physical therapy, occupational therapy, cognitive therapy, and other therapies, especially if your child suffers anxiety, depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder because of another person’s negligence.
As soon after your child’s accident as possible, contact a child injury attorney. If you have not notified the appropriate insurance company and/or authorities of the accident, including state agencies that regulate daycares and schools, our staff will help you make initial contact. After the initial contact to notify the insurance company of a claim, we will continue with the communication—you won’t have to do that.
Contact an experienced La Crosse child injury lawyer at Nicolet Law Accident & Injury Lawyers in La Crosse at 608-527-0876.
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