A recent accident at a swimming pool may have left you or your child with serious injuries. You may also be left with a sense that there should be some accountability. Regardless of whether the accident occurred at a private pool, a public pool, a school, or another location, another party could be responsible for your damages.
A Stockbridge personal injury lawyer from our firm can help you determine the damages and the party responsible for them. Your lawyer can also establish their accountability for your damages and work to recover them for you, so you can focus on getting better. We can tell you more during a free consultation.
Your Damages in Your Stockbridge Swimming Pool Accident Case
After a personal injury incident, you may have suffered many physical, mental, and emotional damages. You might have also incurred many financial damages. However, you could claim all of them in an insurance claim or lawsuit. There may be some damages you don’t know you can claim, but a lawyer from our firm can help you identify them. Your lawyer can even help you determine the value of your non-financial damages.
Your claimable and compensable damages could be:
- Physical pain and any impairment/disability
- Mental and emotional distress due to your incident and your injuries
- Lost earnings and work benefits due to being unable to go to work or having to take care of your child
- Lost earning capacity
- Medical expenses, including the cost of physical therapy
Wrongful Death Damages
You may be suffering from the recent loss of a loved one due to a swimming pool accident. If so, we are very sorry for your loss and what you must be going through right now. You must be longing for a sense of accountability and closure. You may be able to find these things through a wrongful death lawsuit.
In your lawsuit, you can demand such damages as:
- Loss of love and companionship
- Pain and suffering
- Mental and emotional anguish
- Any loss in income and work benefits for your family
- Any unresolved medical bills
For a free legal consultation with a swimming pool accident lawyer serving Stockbridge, call 404-214-2001
How Your Stockbridge Swimming Pool Accident Lawyer Can Resolve Your Case
Once your lawyer has a list of your damages, evidence of negligence, and a plan for establishing negligence, your lawyer will:
- Prepare your insurance claim or lawsuit
- Present it to the other party’s insurer
- Begin negotiating for a settlement or file a lawsuit
Your lawyer will negotiate in good faith and ask the insurer to compensate you fairly. However, the insurer may not be cooperative.
For instance, the insurer might claim the party they represent isn’t accountable for the accident. However, your lawyer may know that a lack of supervision caused your child’s swimming pool accident. Supervision is the lifeguard’s responsibility, and swimming pool administrators are accountable for the actions and inaction of their lifeguards. So, the pool administrator is accountable when a lifeguard fails in their responsibility.
If the insurer in your case claims the pool administrator isn’t accountable, your lawyer won’t accept that. Alternatively, if the insurer diminishes any of your damages, your lawyer won’t accept that, either. Your lawyer can threaten to sue or simply sue the other party. Your lawyer won’t hesitate to sue even if the other party is a governmental public pool administrator.
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About Our Swimming Pool Accident Attorneys Serving Stockbridge, GA
The personal injury attorneys from our firm have decades of experience with cases like yours and other premises liability cases. Our attorneys take on slip and fall cases and even the most serious pool accident cases, such as near-drowning and drowning cases.
Throughout their practice, our attorneys have had excellent results. Our lead attorney, attorney Evan Kaine, has resolved cases worth many millions of dollars, and as a result, he’s a member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Fewer than 1% of U.S. attorneys qualify for membership in this group.
You can learn more about our team by checking out our video on the Top 5 Reasons Why Kaine Law Is Right for You.
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Accountability in Your Swimming Pool Accident Case
You or your child could not have predicted an accident at a swimming pool. The accountable party could be the administrator of the pool facility, even if one of their lifeguards failed in their duties. However, it may be challenging to identify the party who is liable for your damages.
You or a Stockbridge swimming pool accident attorney from our firm will have to establish accountability by showing how the party was negligent. They may have been negligent by:
- Leaving water on a surface that should have been dry
- Leaving a drain cap loose
- Leaving some kind of hazard, like a harmful chemical, in the water
- Failing to mark a depth zone properly
- Failing to train lifeguards adequately
- Failing to hire enough lifeguards
- Failing to have adequate life-saving equipment
- Allowing a pool to become overcrowded
- Ignoring complaints about issues with the pool
Showing Negligence
Something else you or a lawyer from our firm will have to do is show evidence of negligence. One of our lawyers could easily gather such evidence as:
- Pool maintenance reports
- Lifeguard training reports
- Documents showing the lifeguard’s duties
- Footage from a facility security camera
- Photos of the facility
- Your medical bills
- Reports of prior issues with the pool or prior incidents
- Invaluable corroborating evidence, such as a statement from an expert witness
Establishing Negligence
Finally, you or one of our lawyers must establish negligence by showing the four elements of negligence. The lawyer can more easily show:
- Duty of care
- Breach of duty
- Causation
- Damages
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Contact Kaine Law for Your Stockbridge Swimming Pool Accidents Injury Lawyer
You or your child may be suffering in many ways since a swimming pool accident. Our firm can help you hold the responsible party to account and recover damages from them. Also, your lawyer can work for you on a contingency-fee basis, so you won’t have to pay our firm any fees unless and until your lawyer recovers your damages for you.
We can also consult with you for no fee. Contact Kaine Law today for your free consultation.
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