Mississippi parents frequently shop excitedly for strollers, playpens, cribs and other necessities for their baby or children. There are few experiences more emotionally devastating than the heartache experienced when one of these products is defective and causes serious injury to one’s baby. Manufacturers of baby products must comply with safety standards established by the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Child Safety Protection Act. Despite the safety standards established by these federal agencies, there are hundreds of defective baby products recalled annually including toys, car seats, cribs, playpens and other defective children’s products.
Although many defective products that pose a risk of injury to children are recalled, many units of a defective children’s product may sell before they are recalled, and some recalls are not implemented promptly enough to prevent tragedy. One of the greatest dangers posed to extremely young children is from products that pose choking or suffocation risks. It is important to pay careful attention to age recommendations for such products. Attentive parents should also look for parts that may detach from a toy or other baby product such as buttons for eyes on a child’s toy. Parents know that small children tend to put small objects in their mouths. Another important step for parents is to be careful about babies having access to toys of older children with small parts. It is imperative to keep toys and other products with small parts away from small children because they can result in serious child choking accidents that may result in catastrophic injuries, such as brain damage from lack of oxygen to the brain or even wrongful death.
Defective or unsafe toys cause approximately 200,000 visits to emergency rooms annually. Many injuries caused to children are actually caused by child safety products like cribs, car seats, strollers and carriages. The CPSC reports that child safety products result in as many as 35,000 injuries to children per year. Although these types of products are intended to protect babies and children, they are often designed or manufactured improperly so they cause serious injury to infants and babies.
There are many types of baby and children’s products subject to recall including:
- Child safety restraints
- Bassinets
- Baby medications
- Baby clothes
- Playground equipment
- Play Pens
- Formula
- Toys
- Cribs
If your child is injured by a defective product, there are many good reasons to pursue a product liability lawsuit. Admittedly, you cannot undo injury or wrongful death to your child. However, you can use the proceeds from a personal injury lawsuit to obtain the best medical care and highest quality of life for your child. A personal injury lawsuit can also protect other children from injuries caused by similar defects. Safety standards that affect many children can be impacted by product liability judgments.
If your child has suffered injury or your child has suffered wrongful death, our experienced defective children’s products attorneys at Barrett Law have a long history of fighting for those injured by defective or dangerous products. We invite you to contact Barrett Law so that we can evaluate your Mississippi defective children’s product claim and advise you of your rights and options. Call us at 662-834-2376.
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