While Kentucky’s abundant waterways, private and public pools, and water parks provide endless opportunities for recreation, negligence and/or irresponsible behavior regarding water safety can cause water fun to end in tragedy. According to the Center for Disease Control, there were 3,582 fatal unintentional drownings in the United States in 2005. An additional 710 people died, from drowning and other causes, in boating-related incidents.
Drowning and Boating Accidents
Persons or entities that own pools or operate boats are responsible for observing specific laws that are designed to help prevent water-related accidents. When they fail to adhere to mandated safety laws and guidelines and someone is injured or dies because of their negligence, they can be held liable for that injury, or death.
Failure to secure access to a pool, provide adequately trained lifeguards, or protect persons from unsafe drains or diving boards makes pool owners liable for a resulting accident. Also if warning signs were not posted regarding bacteria-contaminated water or shallow water, owners are liable for a resulting illness, injury or death.
Likewise, operators of fishing, sailing and yachting boats, and jet skis are liable if an accident occurs as a result of drunk or reckless navigation or lack of life jacket use.
Water Injuries and Deaths
Hance & Srinivasan provides compassionate, comprehensive legal representation for persons or their loved ones who have been injured or killed in the following types of drowning or boating accidents:
- unsupervised swimming pool
- inadequately secured swimming pool or hot tub
- inadequately secured quarry, gravel pit, or pond
- water park injury or drowning
- diving board accident
- unmarked shallow water injury
- drunk boating accident
- inadequately trained lifeguards, boating operators, staff
- defective equipment or negligent supervision diving accident
- jet ski accident
- near death drowning which causes brain damage
We want to work for you to secure the compensation you deserve for an injury or death of a loved one due to someone else’s negligence. While no amount of money can replace one’s quality of life before an accident or replace a lost loved one, no one should be given the additional financial burden that often results with these types of losses. We have the experience of working with financial, medical and life care planning professionals to recover costs associated with medical expenses, in-home nursing care, lost wages, and pain and suffering.