It’s gift giving season. One of the greatest joys this time of year is seeing your children’s faces light up with excitement as they unwrap the toys you selected just for them. You instinctively trust that the toys will provide hours of fun, and importantly, be safe. Sadly though, the Consumer Safety Product Commission (CSPC) reports that every year between 2015-2022, more than 200,000 children visited the emergency department for toy-related injuries. The most common injuries were lacerations, contusions, abrasions, fractures, foreign bodies, internal injury, ingestion, sprains and strains.

If you live in Palm Beach County and your child was seriously injured by a toy, here are some important steps to take that can help you seek justice for your child:

  • Immediately seek medical care for your child. This is important for your child’s health and will form the basis of your legal case, if you decide to pursue one.
  • Take photos of your child’s injuries. This can help prove how serious the injuries were.
  • Take photos and videos of the scene of the injury.
  • Save the toy (or any remnants of it if it is no longer in one piece). This is a key step in determining why the toy caused the injury. It is also important to record when and where you purchased the toy.
  • If witnesses saw the incident, write down their contact information.
  • Contact a Palm Beach County personal injury attorney with expertise in product liability cases, such as Rader Law Group.

Your attorney will investigate to determine why the toy injured your child. There are three types of product defects that could have caused the toy to become dangerous. These include:

  • Design defects: The toy’s overall design or engineering had a flaw that caused it to be dangerous.
  • Manufacturing defects: Something went wrong when the toy was being produced that created the dangerous situation.
  • Marketing defects: The toy was marketed incorrectly. For example, it may have lacked a warning label that it should only be used by children older than age 3, should only be used on a flat surface, etc.

Depending on which of these defects (or combination thereof) occurred, your personal injury attorney may file an injury claim against the product developer, manufacturer, distributor, marketer, and/or retailer. Your attorney will seek compensation to cover your child’s present and future medical bills, therapy bills, future lost wages (if the injury will make them unable to work in the future), and current lost wages (if the child is a teenager who works). You are also eligible for compensation to cover your family’s pain and suffering from this ordeal.

A severe injury from a toy can cause much more damage than a ruined holiday season. If a toy injured your child, contact Rader Law Group. We are parents and will fight for your child just as hard as we would for our own.

Rader Law Group, LLC

Led by Andrew J. Rader, who is one of less than 1% of Florida Attorneys who is Board Certified in Civil Trial Law by the Florida Supreme Court and who has amassed decades of experience and knowledge, the attorneys at Rader Law Group understand the meaning of Justice. We tirelessly pursue vindication, justice and money for our client, never resting until our client gets the justice he or she deserves. Under our guidance and protection, we provide our clients with not only outstanding legal representation, but also the compassion and care they need as they work through trying times in their lives. The balance of working relentlessly for our clients combined with our caring approach has helped us achieve an exceptional record of success for our clients.

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