Pool Injury Lawyer
What do I do if I have just been involved in a pool injury?
If you or a loved one has been injured in a swimming pool or someone you love was a victim of a drowning.
We have experience in these types of Pool Injuries:
- Drowning
- Pool Drain Injuries
- Diving Board Injuries
- Lack Of Supervision
- Poorly Trained Lifeguards
- Lack Of Posted Safety Rules
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In
Florida, 300 to 500 people die each year as a result of drowning
accidents. Thousands more each year were hospitalized for “near
drowning” incidents. Many of these accidents involve children and/or
pools not properly secured.
Under Florida law, the owner of a property where a pool accident occurs
is responsible to act in a reasonably prudent manor and to do those
things that a reasonably prudent pool owner would do. Obviously, at a
minimum, a pool owner is required to comply with Florida Statutes and
local city or county ordinances pertaining to pool safety.
There are particular statutes and local rules governing Pool Safety in
Florida and you need a lawyer who is well versed in the particular
duties and responsibilities pursuant to local and state laws that would
apply to your pool drowning or pool injury case. Let Robert Gluck be
your Florida Pool Accident / Drowning Lawyer because I have handled many
of these cases over the past 22 years and am well familiar with the
particular code requirements. Gates, pool locks, drain covers, written
policies and procedures are just some of the areas that need to be
investigated in these cases.
Since swimming pools are as much a part of Florida as golf courses and
beaches, accidents are bound to happen. My firm handles cases against
resorts that fail to have life guards on duty, fail to have enough life
guards on duty, fail to have adequately trained lifeguards on duty, fail
to have appropriate rules, procedures and guidelines in place for the
safe operation of the pool area, fail to maintain their equipment
pursuant to code – such as appropriate drain covers.
My firm has also handled cases where near drowning incidents have
occurred at someone else’s home during a sleepover or a birthday party
or other situations where the homeowner, or party responsible for the
supervision of children, fails to do so, resulting in injury or death to
a child.
You should hire a lawyer right away if such a pool incident should occur because having the scene photographed, inspected and preserved is critical to proving liability in any pool / drowning case.