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Dangerous Baby and Child Products

Little Rock, Arkansas

Child and Baby equipment has been known to pose many dangers to children. In past years, several different types of child and baby equipment have been recalled due to defects in design, manufacturing, inadequate warning labels. Those defects have caused many serious injuries and even death in both small children and infants. Some of the most notable pieces of child and baby equipment to pose a threat to your child’s safety are high chairs, strollers, swings, cribs and car seats. There is nothing more tragic than the death of an innocent child due to a defect in the design, manufacture or function of a product. As parents, we want to trust and believe that the company that sells us our baby and child products is selling us a safe and dependable product.

The laws in most states provide individuals with legal recourse and the right to compensation for injuries and death they or their child suffers as a result of a defective product or the negligence of another. The injured or surviving person may file a lawsuit seeking compensation for his/her pain and suffering, medical expenses, funeral expenses, and possibly punitive damages.

Car Seat Defects

It is estimated that almost 2,000 children die and over 200,000 suffer serious injuries each year in the United States due to inadequate car seats and car seat safety. According to the National SAFE Kids Campaign, over 50% of children, age 14 and under, killed in car accidents were not restrained or the restraint failed at the time of impact. Millions of car seats have been recalled in the last decade, including car seats by all major manufacturers.

According to Consumer Reports, three out of every four car seats that are recalled never get returned or repaired, so they may still be in use and carrying your child. You can access car seat recall information using the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) through its car seat hotline at 800.424.9393.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission also works to help protect the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from more than 15,000 types of consumer products under the agency’s watchful eye. Deaths, injuries and property damage from consumer product incidents cost the United States more than $700 billion each year. The CPSC is especially committed to protecting consumers, families and children from products that pose a hazard to infants and small children. Unfortunately, the CPSC does not have the resources to ensure that all products on the market at safe for children. Fortunately, the team of lawyers at Duncan Firm has the ability to investigate and find the link between a dangerous child and baby product and the injury your child may have suffered due to the product’s design or lack of warning.

The following types of injuries have occurred with dangerous child and baby products:

  • Falls from baby walkers
  • Falls downstairs from baby walkers
  • Falls from cribs
  • Entrapment and suffocation in cribs due to loose, missing or improperly installed mattress support hardware or improperly spaced, missing or loose slats.
  • Entanglements, entrapments and wedging incidents in stroller components
  • Entrapments and hangings from high chairs
  • Inadequate high chair straps or restraint system allows falls or strangulation
  • Cut and severed fingers caught in high chair components

While most baby and small child equipment (strollers, high chairs, car seats, swings, cribs, and baby walkers) is designed to keep your child safe during basic daily activities, defects in design and manufacturing occur at an alarming rate. To prevent the unthinkable from happening, it is important that you stay informed of all product recalls and check serial numbers of your equipment once recalls are announced.

At Duncan Firm, our team of trial lawyers has experience fighting the child and baby products manufacturers. We hold them accountable for designing defective and dangerous baby and child products. Let us fight for your family.

If you are a parent and your child has been seriously injured or killed due to a high chair or some other child seating equipment in Little Rock or anywhere in Arkansas, please contact the Children’s Defective Product Injury Attorneys at Duncan Firm today to schedule your free initial consultation. Also, always remember to preserve the product.

High Chair Product Liability Attorney in Little Rock, Arkansas