Swimming Pool Accidents

California Swimming Pool Accident Claims

If you or a member of your family has suffered a serious or fatal injury caused by negligence in or around a swimming pool at a hotel, resort, or private home, contact a personal injury lawyer at the Injury Law Center for free and dependable advice about your rights to compensation. With more than 20 years of experience in the investigation, proof, and resolution of claims involving negligence or wrongful death, San Jose - Walnut Creek accident attorney Jack Bloxham knows how to help clients obtain the compensation they need in the aftermath of serious swimming pool accidents.

Accidents at swimming pools can be severe, disabling, or fatal. The combination of water and hard surfaces can result in serious consequences for negligence, inattention, or reckless behavior around pools. It is hardly surprising that most swimming pool accidents involve children playing around pools without adequate supervision.

The injuries characteristic of swimming pool accidents can include:

• Head injuries ranging from concussion to severe brain trauma
• Fractures and soft tissue damage to knees, ankles, or shoulders suffered in falls onto hard poolside surfaces
• Spinal cord damage resulting from diving accidents
• Brain damage resulting from near drowning accidents
• Death by drowning

Because of the obvious danger that an unsupervised swimming pool can present to small children, California law requires that private swimming pools be fenced and secured from unauthorized visitors and trespassers. While an adult trespasser would be unlikely to recover damages for swimming pool accident injuries, the owner of an unfenced pool where a child was injured or drowned could very likely be held liable for damages under a theory of attractive nuisance.

For additional information about your rights in a swimming pool injury claim, contact the Bay Area accident compensation lawyers at the Injury Law Center.