Maison Law of Bell is committed to helping children recover and get back to their normal lives after a personal injury accident. Our lawyers ensure that an individual or a company responsible for harm to a child is held financially liable. We want child victims to get the best care possible, and we fight to make sure parents have the money to pay for that care.
Please contact us after an accident involving a child in Bell for a free, no-obligation consultation for you and your family.
Do I Need a Lawyer After an Accident Involving My Child?
If your child suffers a serious injury, such as a broken bone or head trauma, due to someone’s negligence, you should speak to a Bell Child Injury Lawyer as soon as possible.
When medical costs begin to rise, insurance adjusters are trained to find ways to avoid taking the blame and limiting what they provide to child victims. Your lawyer is a safeguard against these unfair insurance tactics.
Your lawyer makes sure children get the care they now and have support for the future when they may experience injury complications. A skilled lawyer can often earn victims much more in support than parents could secure by handling a case themselves.
Accident Risks for Bell Children
Unfortunately, vulnerable children can get hurt in almost any location. That will include their time at home at the beginning and end of each day. It includes their journey to school and back. The dangers are even present at children go to the mall, a movie theater, to the park, or to a local store.
Stanford Medicine reports that around 12,000 children and young adults die in unintentional accidents each year in the U.S. Around 8,000 young victims are sent to emergency rooms by falls. Around 254,000 children are hurt in bicycle accidents annually.
Each year, around 2,000 victims aged 14 and under are injured in their homes in unintentional accidents. This includes children hurt in fires, by poisoning, and in near-drownings.
The people who contribute to unsafe conditions that cause these accidents are held accountable by California personal injury laws. They can apply to a reckless driver who injures a child in a collision along Gage Avenue. They can apply to a landlord who doesn’t keep a pool or residential grounds in a safe condition, allowing a child to be endangered.
These are just a few of the types of child injury cases Maison Law takes on and wins for families:
- Traffic Accidents, including Pedestrian and Bicycle Collisions
- Accidents at Schools and On School Buses
- Accidents at Daycare Centers
- Accidents at Unsafe Businesses like Stores, Hotels, and Trampoline Parks
- Accidents Inside or Outside Rental Properties
- Accidents at Unsafe Parks and Public Areas, Leaving Government Agencies Liable
- Accidents Caused by Unsafe Products in the Home Sold by Retailers and Manufacturers.
At each location, young victims are supposed to receive extra care from property and business owners and other adults. When that care isn’t provided and a child is hurt, parents can sue for all of the hardships a child and the child’s family suffer.
Getting the Right Diagnosis After a Bell Accident Involving a Child
After an accident, young victims must get a full check-up. If a child appears to be injured in any way or could have been injured, call an ambulance. Let them get checked over and taken to the emergency room if necessary. But parents may also need to go further.
Children with injuries or who experience pain a day or two later should also be taken to the family doctor. Explain to the doctor what happened and have your child checked out. A doctor should especially examine any new pain that arises.
It’s important to rely on the diagnosis of a paramedic when deciding whether a child is seriously injured. On the scene, the shock of what’s happened may mask the child’s pain and hide an injury. The child may also not be communicative about how they are really feeling. Child patients should be checked out by a family doctor, even if they’ve already been to the emergency room.
What Kind of Special Care Do Children Need After Accidents?
Children are very vulnerable to accidents. They have less muscle for protection, and their bones aren’t as strong. Unfortunately, they are also at more risk for problems in the future.
A fractured bone or tissue damage may appear fully healed. However, years later, as a teenager’s body continues to mature towards adulthood, complications can arise. Surgery could be necessary to make sure an old injury doesn’t affect skeletal growth and the development of tissue as the child develops.
Maison Law uses testimony from medical experts to calculate the level of support a child could need in the coming years. That support must be included in any settlement offer. If a settlement check doesn’t protect young victims through their teen years, our lawyers reject the offers. We would go back to the negotiating table and demand more for the child and the child’s family.
What Kind of Support Can My Child Receive After a Bell, CA Accident?
A Maison Law attorney would create a thorough list of every hardship the child has faced since an accident and every hardship potentially on the horizon. This list would be formed by input from medical experts.
It would include totals on all current medical bills and estimates on those to come. There are also emotional damages to be concerned with in the case of a young victim.
Your attorney would demand these benefits and more on your child’s behalf:
- Medical expenses, to cover past, current, and future medical costs.
- Lifelong support for a permanent physical disability or permanent disfigurement that the child is left with.
- Property damage, which includes repair or replacement costs for damaged personal items.
- Out-of-pocket expenses, covering costs like transportation to medical appointments and prescriptions.
- Support awarded for the pain children must cope with and manage.
- Support for the emotional trauma caused by a frightening accident. This can include the anxiety and depression caused by a major injury and a long, difficult recovery. Children should also get the support they need to overcome any PTSD symptoms they carry away from an accident, especially after a devastating car crash or a frightening dog attack.
- Loss of enjoyment of life, which will deal with reduced ability to enjoy activities.
- Wrongful death benefits for parents. If a tragic accident claims the life of a child, parents should get help with the funeral costs that follow. They must get help paying off any lingering medical bills from before the child passed on. Parents and family members could also receive additional support for the loss of companionship and love they will have to cope with the rest of their lives.
Contact a Bell, CA Child Injury Attorney
After your child has suffered a serious injury caused by someone’s carelessness, contact a skilled Bell Child Injury Lawyer to discuss your case, free of charge. It’s a no-risk opportunity to find out about all the benefits available to you and your child, and how to hold an insurance company fully responsible.
Maison Law compassionately protects child victims and their families and makes sure they receive every benefit available to rebuild their lives. That means we work hard to cause as little disruption to family life as possible during the claims process.
What’s more, if your child needs our help to secure more from those at fault, we don’t charge anything up front. We cover everything and don’t get paid unless the case is won for your child. Then our fee comes out of the settlement check that an insurance company must provide.
