Child Injury: Concrete Steps to take now.  

The worst has happened: your precious child has been in a car crash. Your child is injured, in hospital, and you are beside yourself with worry. Sometimes, being able to take action helps. Sometimes you must wait to have the energy to do anything but support your child and family. Calling a lawyer may seem daunting, or necessary depending on where you are at.  

If you need to act, here are some steps you can take to help your injured child and family. 

Step 1: Report the car accident to your own car insurance company. Your policy of car insurance has automatic, legislatively required coverage. What is available and how much is largely dependent on the injury to your child. See here for more information on what is available.  

Step 2: Write down what happened in as much detail as possible, and include names of witnesses if you know, timelines, weather, visibility, road issues, anything that you think may have contributed to the car accident occurring.  

Step 3: Write down what EMS, police, fire, and emergency personnel said to you and expressed concern about.  

Step 4: Write down what your child’s injuries are now. They will change over time, and many will improve. You will forget. If you have pictures of the wounds, please keep them, as difficult as that may be. Sometimes insurance companies challenge things like wearing a seat belt (is there a bruise over their abdomen); whether their head was injured (bruising, cuts, torn hats); how frightening the hospital was and how extensive the care.  

Step 5: Call a lawyer who has experience representing injured children. Legate Injury Lawyers have that experience.  

We can give you advice, guidance and can take the load off your shoulders as much as possible. Legate’s lawyers focus representing injured children and their families is to ensure that they have access to rehabilitation and can move back towards as normal a life as possible. We understand that recovery is your focus. It is ours too. The best thing you can say to us is my injured child has recovered, we’re good.  

Give us a call when you are ready.