Denver Defective Car Seat Attorney

Whenever you take your children for a ride in your car or truck, you know that they need to be securely buckled into a properly installed child safety seat. Not only does the safety of the children require the use of child safety seats, but the law dictates this as well. In an auto accident, children are much more vulnerable to various injuries than adults. For a child, a brain injury, or a spinal injury could become a debilitating, lifelong disability. In fact, car accidents represent the leading cause of death among children. The best way to protect your children while driving is to make sure that they are secured properly every time, and to make sure that adults in your car always use their seat belts. By ensuring that adults always use their seat belts, you allow the children to see good habits in action.

What no parent ever expects, but what unfortunately does happen from time to time, is an injury to a child during a car accident as a result of a defective child safety seat. From time to time, manufacturers will issue recalls of child safety seats. You can check whether the seat you use for your child has been recalled at safercar.gov. If your child safety seat has a recall, there will be instructions about what you should do if you own that seat. Recalls are issued when some defect in design or manufacture is discovered, which may cause the item in question to be unsafe. Unfortunately, sometimes the way that these defects are discovered is that a child is injured in an accident. If your child is injured while in a child safety seat, you need to contact an experienced Denver defective products attorney as soon as possible to discuss your options.

One reason to contact an attorney if your child is injured while secured in a safety seat is that an experienced defective products attorney may be able to help identify whether the seat was in fact defective. Defective products cases can be very complicated, but they can be very important because by making the manufacturer aware of and responsible for the defect in the product, you may be protecting other families from having their children injured by the same product. As with other products, there are three basic types of defect: defect of design, defect of manufacture, and defect of marketing, sometimes called failure to warn.

If you believe that the injury that your child sustained in a car accident was either caused or magnified by a defective child restraint system, speak with a Denver defective products attorney right away. Keith Fuicelli is dedicated to helping people who have been injured through no fault of their own; he can negotiate with the insurance company to ensure the best possible healthcare for your child, and he can take legal action, if appropriate, for the defective product. For more information and a FREE CONSULTATION, contact Keith at the Law Firm of Fuicelli and Lee at (303)355-7202.