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Parents and Caregivers: What You Need to Know About Child Injuries in Florida

Representing Child Injury Victims and Parents of Injured Children in Florida

HAS YOUR CHILD BEEN INJURED IN AN ACCIDENT? WE ARE HERE TO HELP.

Whether your child has been involved in a car accident, pedestrian accident, suffered a burn injury, or been involved in a medical malpractice claim, children have an uncanny ability to get into everything. Accidents happen, but unintentional injuries can cause untold damage and emotional trauma to the entire family.

Child injuries in Florida can be debilitating not only for the affected child, but also for families and friends who have to deal with the aftermath of a terrible accident or medical mistake. Injuries must be treated, hospital bills must be paid, therapy or rehabilitation may be needed, parents may have to take time off work or quit their jobs to care for their child, and much more.

We understand how challenging it can be for families and caregivers to deal with serious childhood injuries, especially if they resulted from somebody else's neglect. This is why Clearwater attorney James W. Dodson, a grandfather with more than 25 years of injured clients experience, wrote a book to help Florida parents deal with the emotional and legal aftermath of a serious childhood injury. "When Kids Suffer Big Injuries: A Parents' Guide to Child Injury in Florida"  helps educate parents on the rights of injured children. This book is FREE to anyone who needs help dealing with a Florida child injury situation.

Working to Make SAFETY Every Child's Reality
Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of child deaths in the United States. Florida car accidentscause the most injuries to children in the state, but there are many other culprits, such as:

- Children injured in car accidents
- child or teen bicycle or pedestrian accidents
- Children hurt on bicycles | razors | and scooters
- child burn or scalding injury
- firework injuries
- child medical mistakes malpractice
- child dog bites
- child wrongful death
- child brain injury/child head injury
- child drowning
- Children injured by a dangerous product
- playground accidents

These child accidents can occur in the home, at day care or school, on the playground, or anywhere children live and play.

Jim Dodson knows the dos and don'ts of Florida child safety, and he knows how to tell when the safety of a child has been neglected. He understands the powerful emotions parents feel when their child is been injured, and as a grandfather himself, he is passionate about keeping all children safe and fighting for their legal rights when they are hurt.

If your child has been injured in a serious Florida accident, Jim Dodson and his skilled legal team will help you pursue legal compensation. He will also work to make sure that your child - and others like them - will be safe in the future. Contact him today at 1-888-340-0840.

‘No Fee' Guarantee
A tireless child advocate, Jim Dodson is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, a select group of lawyers who have won million-dollar settlements or verdicts for their clients.

He knows that lawyer fees can be a concern, so the Dodson Law Firm works on a contingency basis. If Jim doesn't get you money damages, you don't pay a lawyer fee.

To talk to a Florida child injury lawyer, please call 1-888-340-0840 to see how we can help protect your child's rights. To read about Florida child safety issues in the news, check out Jim's Florida child injury blog. 

Car Accident Lawyer

When a child is injured in a car accident or motor vehicle collision, a parent or caregiver has so many unanswered questions about how to deal with their child's needs. If your child was seriously hurt in the crash, either as a driver of the car or as a passenger in the car, you may have already had to deal with treatment by paramedics or the emergency room and there may be a need for more treatment from other medical specialists. Aside from handling these hardships, you also may be concerned about mounting doctor bills, who is going to pay those bills, and how to hold the person responsible for your child's injuries accountable. If this isn't enough, the insurance company is calling and asking you for a recorded statement and want you to sign some forms. Should you speak to a child accident and injury  lawyer about your concerns? A Clearwater St. Petersburg  Car Accident Lawyer understands all of the legal issues you are facing and what you need to do to help your child recover from his or her injuries.

Medical Malpractice Lawyer

Has your child been the victim of a medical mistake caused by a doctor, hospital, or nurse which caused an injury to him or her. Florida medical malpractice lawyer James Dodson explains these claims may be based on negligence or mistake in performing surgery or some procedure, from birth injury, failure to diagnose or delay in diagnosing a condition, or due to medication error or mistake in dispensing medicine. Learn where to turn for help.

Slip and Fall Lawyer

Falls are an all too common source of child injury. They may occur if a child falls because someone allowed a slippery substance to be left on the floor; or because they failed to adequately supervise your child when they had a responsibility to do so; or because of their failure to safely maintain their property or keep playground or other equipment safely maintained. When the unexpected happens, what should you do?

Dog Bite Lawyer

If your child was bitten by a dog, he or she may have suffered serious facial scars, or bad cuts or wounds to their head, arms, legs or body, maybe requiring stitches. These wounds may leave physical scars, as well as emotional and psychological injury as well. As a parent or guardian of a child who has been hurt seriously in an attack by a dog, you need answers to many questions you are facing. Maybe you are wondering who will pay for his or her medical care and treatment, where do you find a plastic surgeon, or a child psychologist or other specialist to treat your child's physical and emotional wounds. What steps do you need to take to recover compensation from the owner of the dog that bit your child and how do you hold the dog owner responsible? Child Dog Bite Attorney in Clearwater, Jim Dodson answers your questions and more in his free consumer guide, “When Kids Suffered Big Injuries: A Parent's Guide to Child Injuries in Florida”.

Burn and Fireworks Injury Lawyer

Thousands of children are hospitalized every year with burn injuries. Burn Injuries are the second most common cause of death in children. If your child has suffered a burn injury from fireworks, open flame or someone's failure to supervise him or her, Florida child Injury Lawyer James Dodson discusses concerns you may have about getting medical treatment, paying medical bills, even if you have no health insurance, how to recover compensation from the person who caused his or her burn injury and what you should know about dealing with the claims adjuster.

Pedestrian | Bicycle | Scooter Accident Lawyer

Clearwater St. Petersburg Tampa area is a dangerous place for bicyclists, pedestrians and children on scooters/razors. Florida is, in fact, the most dangerous state in the country for pedestrian injuries. If your child was hurt as a pedestrian, while riding a bicycle, or on a scooter/razor,  the reasons Florida is such a dangerous place really don't matter to you. When your child is injured, whether it happened in a back-over accident, while crossing a street in a crosswalk, or walking or riding a bike in a parking lot, on a sidewalk or while riding the Pinellas Trail, you have many questions and a lot of concerns. How to care for your child's  injuries, who will pay the medical bills, can you hold the person responsible who caused your child's injuries. You are asking, should I talk to the insurance adjuster who is calling and how do I find an experienced Clearwater St. Petersburg Child Injury Lawyer, one who is qualified to handle child pedestrian or bicycle accident cases?

Wrongful Death Lawyer

Nothing is more devastating than the death of your child. Your sense of loss is even more profound when his or her death was due to a mistake or negligence of someone in a car wreck, vehicle crash, as a pedestrian or on a bicycle, scooter or razor, an animal attack, or someone's failure to supervise him or her in a pool. You need answers to your questions. What should you do and how do you begin the process of holding the person responsible? You will find the answers to these and other questions you have in Clearwater child injury lawyer James Dodson's book "When Kids Suffer Big Injuries" and "Survivors Guide to Florida Wrongful Death Claims" offered at no charge to those who have suffered a loss in Florida, or you may speak to Mr Dodson personally for an evaluation of your case.

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The Dodson Law Firm represents Florida personal injury claims and child injury claims in the Clearwater | St. Petersburg area: Clearwater, Tarpon Springs, Bradenton, Lakewood Village, Dunedin, Largo, Oldsmar, St. Petersburg, Palm Harbor, Safety Harbor, Pinellas Park, Seminole, Belleair, Belleair Bluffs, Treasure Island, Madeira Beach, Indian Shores, Redington Beach, Indian Rocks Beach, Clearwater Beach, Palm Harbor, Crystal Beach, Bradenton, Palmetto, Sarasota, Lakewood Ranch, Ellenton, Kenneth City, Belleair Shores, South Pasadena, St. Petersburg Beach, Tierra Verde, New Port Richey, Port Richey, Hudson, Bayonet Point, Holiday, Land O'Lakes, Odessa, Tampa, Temple Terrace, Sebring, Wesley Chapel, Pinellas County, Pasco County, Hillsborough County, Manatee County and all other Florida counties.

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