Wickett, TX Personal Injury Law Firms & Lawyers

Your stated facts are insufficient to assess liability or blame anyone for the accident. First, you should attempt to find the parent(s) of the girl who pushed your child off the slide thereby causing the initial injury. Perhaps, her parent(s) may be willing to cover some, if not all, of your daughter's medical bills.

This is a very unfortunate situation; however, there is a recent case in California (within the last 2 years or so) with which not all attorneys are familiar and which could be of significant help your family. The case holds that a personal vehicle used by someone who is employed and whose vehicle provides an incidental benefit to an employer may be found to be a work vehicle and thus create a vicarious liability on the employer even if the vehicle was not being used for work purposes at the time of the collision. Also, based on your description of the collision, there may also be a claim against the government for a dangerous roadway. You should have an attorney who does personal injury look at the file right away in order to properly assess the case.

What you where told is not correct. The amount of insurance available is a factor to consider but, by itself, is not determinative of the value of a case. It takes an attorney with experience to consider insurance, fault, damages, applicable law, venue, and several other factors. Ultimately your case is worth what it settles for or what a jury awards - everything else is only an estimate or best guess.