Injuries to Children

Injuries to children can take many different forms including:

and many others.

Under Pennsylvania law, if a child is injured on the property of another, the property owner may be responsible for the injury. Property owners have a general duty to protect children from injury on their property and exercise ordinary care to prevent injuries. Also, there are such legal issues as attractive nuisance, where the law may impose liability on a land owner even to a child who is trespassing, when the land owner knows or has reason to know that children are likely to trespass because of something “attractive” to children on their property. The Pearce Law Firm in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has the legal expertise to pursue your child’s claims under complicated legal theories such as these. Injuries to children may have hidden complications, such as growth and developmental issues. Edith Pearce is unique in representing children to recover against insurance companies, being a mother herself and having worked for an insurance company as an attorney for many years. She has the inside knowledge and will provide compassionate representation of your precious child.

Compensation

Damages that an injury victim and the victim's family are entitled to recover may include: hospital and medical expenses; future loss of potential earnings due to the injury; past and future permanent physical disability, such as a limp, scars, loss of a limb; emotional distress, such as depression and anxiety; grief and emotional suffering caused by the death of a loved one; loss of love and companionship caused by the death of a loved one; damage or destruction of property; physical pain and suffering; loss of enjoyment of life.

To protect your child’s legal rights following a serious injury, it is wise to consult a personal injury law firm with experience in these matters as soon as possible. Within the first week, important physical evidence can be lost, and witnesses may become hard to find.

The Compensation You Deserve

If your child has been injured on another’s property or is the victim of an accident or other injury in Philadelphia or anywhere in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, you should consult with an experienced injury attorney as soon as possible to protect the rights of your child. Our law firm will thoroughly investigate your claim and work diligently to arrive at a timely settlement or proceed to trial to obtain the compensation you and your child deserve for the injury, trauma, loss, medical bills, suffering and for any on-going needs that may result.

Experience and Expertise

The Pearce Law Firm uses a combination of aggressive discovery, site visits, witness interviews, and the assistance of medical and engineering experts to provide clients with state-of-the-art legal representation. Before deciding to represent the rights of injured people, Edith Pearce spent over ten years working as an attorney for an insurance company and defense firm. She knows all the “tricks of the trade” from the other side of the fence and knows how to navigate through the complexities of insurance defenses to obtain full compensation for her clients.

Attractive Nuisance: The legal doctrine of "attractive nuisance" states that a land owner can be subject to liability for physical harm to children even if they were trespassing if certain conditions are met including if the injury was caused by an artificial or man-made condition of the property and if the place where the condition exists is one upon which the land owner knows or has reason to know that children are likely to trespass. Some examples of an "attractive nuisance" as found in some states include an unenclosed swimming pool, a fountain containing goldfish, wells, tunnels, dumpsters, paths, and stairways. These cases are very fact specific and you need the experience of an injury lawyer who understands how to represent children.

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