Massachusetts Personal Injury Library
Child Head Injury and Bike Helmets (Part B)
…Continued from Child Head Injury and Bike Helmets (Part A)
Defective Bike Helmets and Child Brain Injuries
While bike helmets are statistically proven to protect children in bicycle accidents, helmet manufacturers occasionally make mistakes and bike helmet recalls do occur. A defective helmet poses a significant risk to your child in the event of a bicycle accident.
Injuries that can occur from using a defective bike helmet are listed below:
- Brain trauma
- Facial fractures
- Concussion
- Skull fractures
- Death
How a Defective Bike Helmet Can Cause Brain Injury
When a bike helmet is rendered defective by the manufacturer’s error, it will fail to provide protection in one or more of the following ways:
- Insufficient protection provided by the hard outer shell of the helmet
- A soft, inner padding that fails to cushion the skull and brain from injury
Overall, a defective helmet will fail to prevent a child’s brain from moving vigorously in the skull upon impact, which can result in a closed head injury and brain damage.
Seeking Compensation for Your Child’s Injuries
A child brain injury from a bicycle accident is frightening and will affect the entire family. Your child may suffer lifelong disabilities as well as pain and suffering.
If a manufacturer is liable for your child’s head injury, they should be held responsible for providing just compensation for injuries suffered.
How to Select the Right Lawyer?
When selecting a Boston child injury lawyer ask critical questions, such as:
- How long have you been practicing in Massachusetts?
- Do you have experience with child accident cases in Boston, Massachusetts?
- What is the biggest settlement or verdict you have won for your clients in child injury cases?
The best personal injury lawyer for the job will have won millions of dollars for settlements in child injury cases.
Attorney Thomas Kiley, of the Kiley Law Group, has a 30+ year experience in representing child injury victims and winning millions of dollars on their behalf.
Call 1-888-208-1695 for a FREE Consultation with Tom Kiley.
The call is free, the information may be priceless.
