Hackensack Child Injury Lawyer
When a child gets hurt, the entire family is also affected. Even a slight injury to a child can bring sadness to the parents. When that injury is serious, the entire trajectory of a family’s life can change.
A compassionate Hackensack child injury lawyer knows how heartbreaking this type of situation can be. Our personal injury attorneys can help you fight for justice for your family.
Grounds for Filing a Child Injury Lawsuit
As a parent, you want to help your children grow up healthy and happy. You try to protect them from anything that could possibly cause them harm. However, you cannot always be right by their side, and you do not have control over everything they do and everyone they encounter. Unfortunately, kids occasionally get hurt. If your child suffered harm because of someone else’s actions, your family might be able to seek damages in a civil lawsuit.
Our skilled Hackensack attorneys care about helping you get the compensation you need to improve the quality of your injured child’s life.
Potential Defendants in a Child Injury Legal Claim
When someone does something that causes your child to suffer harm, that person should be held legally accountable for their actions. Our seasoned lawyers have guided many Hackensack families through lawsuits against a wide range of people who were responsible for harming children through carelessness or criminal actions.
Drivers
Our attorneys can help you sue the motorists who caused a crash that resulted in your child’s injuries. We can investigate the wreck to determine what led to the accident. For instance, our investigation can determine if the motorist was drunk, distracted, speeding, or driving too aggressively.
Manufacturers
Many injuries occur through the use of inherently defective or improperly labeled products. For example, if your toddler choked on the small pieces of a toy that was incorrectly marketed towards toddlers, you might be able to sue the toy’s manufacturer. If your baby fell when their highchair collapsed due to a product defect, you can sue the highchair’s manufacturer.
School or Daycare Provider
Schools and daycare providers have an enhanced duty of care to protect your children. If your child suffered harm while at school, our attorneys can determine whether the injury occurred due to a lack of proper supervision or a different breach of the school’s duty of care.
Homeowners
Unfortunately, many accidents occur in the homes or yards of neighbors, friends, or family members. Property owners have a duty of care to provide guests with a reasonably safe environment, and that duty of care is heightened when children are involved. For instance, if your child suffered a drowning or near-drowning injury in a neighbor’s pool, you can sue that homeowner for failing to fence in the pool or properly supervise the children using it.
Criminal Abusers
Children sometimes suffer harm due to domestic or stranger abuse. Our compassionate lawyers understand how traumatic the aftermath of abuse can be for a child and their family. We can help you bring your child’s abuser to justice. You have the right to bring a civil legal claim against your child’s abuser even if the criminal justice system has failed them. Although the resolution of your civil lawsuit may not send the abuser to jail, it would still hold them legally accountable.
Our dedicated legal team can carefully review the evidence to determine what went wrong and identify who bears legal liability for your child’s injuries. We know how to review police reports and medical records, and we know what questions to ask witnesses and bystanders to find the truth.
Call a Hackensack Attorney To Discuss Your Child’s Injury Case
If you suspect that someone’s actions caused harm to your child, you should not have to pursue justice by yourself. Contact a seasoned Hackensack child injury lawyer who will fight tenaciously on your child’s behalf. Call Garces, Grabler & LeBrocq today.
