Personal Injury Attorney For Negligent Drowning

Defective Swimming Products are Unsafe for Children
Defective swimming pool drains, unfenced swimming pools, and inadequately monitored water rides can be extremely dangerous causing serious personal injury or even wrongful death.

Unfortunately, drowning is the second leading cause of death among children under 14 years of age and is a real danger for young children that live near unsecured pools. 

Consumer Safety Groups and Organizations including the have become aware of many dangers with defectively designed and roped pools and have issued several safety warnings about the importance of pool safety.

Some public pools and camps ignore these warnings and need to be dealt with.  By ignoring rules that are put in place to keep pools safe they put children visiting at a higher risk for drowning.

There have also been several stories in the news where defective swimming pool drains have caused serious injuries to small children as well as trapped small children under water.

If this sounds familiar, you need to contact a local legal counsel to file a suit and stop this negligence.

Life Guards Too Often Fail to Properly Watch Children at Pools
Too often, a paid professional fails to keep an eye on children when they are swimming. The job of a life guard at a public pool is to ensure the safety of the swimmers in the pool.  Too often a drowning can occur if the life guard on duty is not paying attention.  This is unacceptable, it is most definatley considered negligent behavior.

In many instances, drowning results in the deaths of victims, however, for survivors of accidental drowning, the continued deprivation of oxygen to the brain leaves many victims mentally and neurologically impaired.

Typically, victims of accidental drowning that remained under the surface of the water without oxygen for more than five to six minutes will incur permanent disability and damages.

The sad reality of most drowning deaths and injuries is that many of these incidents are entirely preventable by a number of people and entities. The parties responsible for the accidental drowning of your loved one should be held liable for their negligent actions.

Recovery can be in the $Millions
Personal injury attorneys can hold the people responsible for negligent drowning deaths and recover millions because of wrongful death.

For example: in May, a Santa Barbara jury awarded Oded and Anat Gottesman nearly $14 million for economic and non-economic damages for the loss of their child Yoni, who drowned in a Cathedral Oaks Athletic Club swimming pool in 2005.

The jury needed one full day and most of two more to come to its decision in the case, in which Oded and Anat Gottesman sued 11 individuals and entities, including Cathedral Oaks Athletic Club and many of its employees, for the death of their four-year-old son, who drowned in August 2005.

Cathedral Oaks didn’t have a license to run the camp, and pool time came at the end of the day, a time when a child is most worn out.

Ten of the 11 defendants in the case, ranging from lifeguards at the pool to managers at the club, admitted they had been negligent in the case.