Brooklyn Child Injury Lawyer

What’s a parent’s worst nightmare? An injured child. The sheer injustice of seeing your child injured by someone else’s negligence can make your blood boil. How can you balance your right to legal action against your responsibility to nurse your child back to health, though? When you work with Morelli Law Firm, a Brooklyn child injury lawyer can help.

We can connect you with an attorney who can prioritize your and your child’s right to legal action. Our efforts can help you secure the financial aid you need to pay your medical bills and supplement your lost income. Are you ready to take action? You can contact our personal injury lawyers in Brooklyn to book a free case evaluation today.

When to Contact a Child Injury Lawyer in Brooklyn

As an injured child’s representative, it is in your best interest to get in touch with a personal injury attorney as soon as you can after your child’s accident. Why? Because you want to control the narrative surrounding your child’s losses. 

Insurance companies and liable parties will both attempt to obscure evidence related to your child’s treatment, thereby making it more difficult for you to take legal action against them. 

The sooner you can get a hold of an experienced lawyer, the faster you can delegate the responsibility for your upcoming lawsuit to that party. You, in the meantime, can focus on getting your child the care they need to get back on their feet.

We Can Help You Tackle a Wide Range of Child Injury Accidents

No two accidents look alike, particularly not when children are involved. Fortunately, our child injury attorneys in Brooklyn do not limit the scope of the cases they are willing to address. You can work with our team to tackle a child’s right to a lawsuit after a car accident, slip and fall, product failure, or unreasonable exposure to danger.

If you have questions about your right to a lawsuit after a child injury, you can schedule a free case evaluation with our team. These opportunities allow you to discuss the negligence that led to your child’s injury and your right to represent an injured child in or out of court.

How to Assign Liability After a Child’s Accident

If you want to assign liability for a child’s recent accident, you need to have the data necessary to meet New York State’s burden of proof. The burden of proof in New York State requires parents or other guardians to bring forward a combination of video footage, expert witness statements, electronic evidence, and physical data going into detail about a child’s accident.

You cannot hold another party financially accountable for your child’s losses unless you meet the state’s burden of proof. You, however, have other obligations on your plate. Fortunately, Brooklyn child injury attorneys can take over the investigation into your child’s recent accident while you prioritize the child’s medical treatments and school work.

Seeking Damages on an Injured Child’s Behalf

Medical treatments can put your savings at risk far sooner than you expect. At the same time, the child injury attorneys in Brooklyn understand that you want your child to have the best possible treatment after an accident. That’s why Morelli Law Firm fights to win you the financial support you need to pay your child’s accident-related bills.

We can work with you to calculate the value of the lawsuit you want to bring to civil court while maximizing your right to request lost-based damages. The losses we can integrate into your claim will vary depending on the nature of your child’s accident but can often include the following:

• Ambulance fees
• Pain management
• Emergency room bills
• Mobility aids
• Surgeries
• Lost wages
• Pain and suffering
• Mental distress

You can discuss what losses you and your child may deserve compensation for when you meet with our team for a free case evaluation. 

Child Injury Cases Have Unique Filing Deadlines

Generally, personal injury cases in Brooklyn must abide by New York State’s statute of limitations. The statute gives you no more than three years to gather the evidence necessary to build a case against a negligent party.

That said, cases involving children tend to have longer statute of limitations. For example, if you don’t want to pursue a claim but your child does, that child has three years from the day they turn 18 to go to civil trial. This means that most child survivors have until they turn 21 to initiate civil action against an offending party. 

Can You Initiate Criminal Proceedings After a Child’s Accident?

Unfortunately, neither you nor a Brooklyn child injury attorney can initiate a criminal investigation into the negligence that resulted in your child’s injuries. Only the state may build a criminal case against an offending party. However, the state may call you to testify as to the nature of your child’s injury should it assume a criminal case against the offending party.

If the state finds a particular party guilty of dangerous negligence or other criminal behavior that endangered your child, you’re in luck. You can bring that conviction to a civil judge’s attention in your effort to prove that a liable party owes you financial support. 

Our attorneys can keep on top of any relevant criminal cases and let you know whether or not evidence related to your pursuit of support comes to light. 

Decades of Experience Protecting Families in Need

Morelli Law Firm believes that no child should come to harm under any circumstances. That’s why we want to help parties like you take legal action on a minor’s behalf. If you’re struggling to understand your right to represent an injured child, schedule a free case evaluation with our child injury lawyers in Brooklyn.

We can outline your right to legal action and help represent your best interests as you move a case forward. All the while, you can count on our team to prioritize your and your child’s right to comprehensive financial support. Contact us today to get your first FREE case evaluation on the books.