Child Injury Lawyer in Melville
If your child has been hurt, you may be dealing with hospital visits, missed school, and many questions about what happens next. It is heartbreaking to see your child suffer, and infuriating if their injuries happened due to another person’s negligence.
Maybe someone you trusted caused an accident, or a person in a professional capacity behaved carelessly. You may have the right to hold them accountable for the hardships your family has endured. Our child injury lawyers in Melville can help.
The Harrison Law Group has recovered more than $450 million for accident victims who were injured due to no fault of their own. Call today and schedule your free consultation to learn more about how our personal injury lawyers in Melville can help when your child has been hurt.
How We Can Help With Your Child’s Injury Case
A child injury claim comes with procedural steps you won’t find in a standard adult injury case. Our child injury attorneys in Melville understand the legal nuances. While no two cases are identical, there are many benefits to working with our team. For example:
- We will identify every party who may be held responsible for your child’s injury, including caretakers, property owners, and product manufacturers.
- When a school district or municipality may be responsible, we will protect your child’s rights by filing the required notice of claim within ninety days.
- To build a complete picture of your child’s injuries, we will obtain the necessary medical records and work with treating providers to document the full extent of the harm.
- If an insurance company disputes responsibility or tries to minimize your child’s injuries, we will push back and negotiate for the compensation your child deserves.
- When a settlement is reached, we will prepare the necessary documents and seek the court approval required under New York law when a minor is involved.
We will handle your case on a contingency fee basis, so you will not have to pay attorney’s fees upfront. Our fee comes as a prearranged percentage of the compensation we recover for you. This arrangement helps many families afford a personal injury attorney in New York.
Types of Child Injury Cases
One of our most important jobs is investigating the incident so we can fully understand what happened and who may be liable. The parties we pursue will depend on how your child’s injury occurred.
Caretaker Negligence
When you hand your child over to a daycare, a school, or a summer camp, you’re trusting that caretaker to watch out for your child’s safety. If that caretaker doesn’t supervise properly, or ignores a hazard they knew about, we can work to hold them responsible for what happened.
Premises Liability
Property owners in New York must keep their properties reasonably safe, which means fixing known hazards or at least warning people about them. Courts in this state also recognize that a young child may not understand a danger the way an adult would, and that changes how we evaluate the property owner’s responsibility.
Defective Products
Companies that manufacture or sell products aimed at children have to make sure those products are actually safe to use. A flaw in the design, a mistake during manufacturing, or a missing warning label can turn an ordinary toy or piece of equipment into something dangerous.
Time Limits for Filing Your Claim
Most personal injury claims in New York need to be filed within three years of the incident.
For many personal injury claims involving minors, CPLR § 208 can extend the deadline until up to three years after the child turns eighteen, though the exact deadline depends on the type of claim and other limits under New York law. Our team can determine the precise deadline that applies to your child’s case.
Claims against a government entity, like a public school district, work on a much tighter schedule. In those cases, we must file a Notice of Claim against a municipality or school district within ninety days after the claim arises. Miss that window, and the claim can be barred entirely, no matter how serious your child’s injury turned out to be.
Get Help from Our Child Injury Attorneys in Melville
When your child is hurting, it’s natural to want to fix the problem, and it is easy to feel helpless when you can’t. You can take action and fight to hold the negligent party accountable for the suffering they have caused. While that won’t change the past, it can mean a brighter future.
Our child injury attorneys in Melville will help you pursue the compensation your family needs to make sure your child gets the best of care. We’ll handle the legal burden so you can focus on your child during the time when they need you most.
Our team at Harrison Law Group has more than 30 years of experience helping New Yorkers hold insurers accountable for the damages caused by their clients. Call today to schedule your free consultation and tell us what happened.