You would be surprised at the number of children who suffer broken arms and legs and serious head injuries from falls through upstairs windows. These children fall because the windows are not secured properly. There are such problems as loose screens or windows without any child fall protection safety guards such as metal railings in private residential homes and hotels.

Any injury to a child in Oregon State and Washington State is serious especially when a child falls through an open or partially opened window and lands upon the ground and is injured. To recover money damages on child fall injury cases you must be able to show that the structural deficiency of the opening to the exterior fell below the minimum safety standard in the state. A good liability investigation in any child fall injury case also would best address whether there was proper supervision of the child by whomever was supervising the child. Children under 10 years of age require adult supervision and any brief thereof and a resulting injury may be enough to get the homeowners insurance company to assume responsibility for the child’s medical bills and even for pain and suffering of the child which depends upon the severity of the case at hand.

The trend in heightened safety on child fall injury cases is a good thing and in my opinion is a result of personal injury lawsuits and the push by good injury lawyers to hold homeowners to accountability for the safety of those on their property. We now see more and more homes with window guards which really are inexpensive and prevent kinds from being injured and dying in the worst case scenario. Lets hope the safety trend in installing child restraint safety window guard continues.

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