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Serious Injury
Drowning and Near Drowning of Children and Adults

Florida Injury Lawyers

Swimming pool accidents lead to drowning or severe head, neck, and back injuries, including traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury. While drowning accidents occur at the lake or at the shore, they most frequently occur at private or public swimming pools. At the Fort Lauderdale law firm or Toral, Garcia & Franz, Attorneys at Law, we help parents devastated by the death of a child in a swimming pool accident and adults left with a significant brain injury after a pool party. If your life has been affected by a pool mishap or drowning accident, contact our Fort Lauderdale law firm for a free initial consultation.

We help get needed resources after a drowning accident or pool mishap

We help our clients get the resources that they need after a drowning accident. In addition to filing a lawsuit and aggressively representing our clients' interests in litigation, we connect injured people and their parents and loved ones with support networks throughout the state of Florida. We provide in-house care who ensure that our clients receive the information they need to deal with their situation. We offer clients a continuum of care, from initial consultation through coordinating medical treatment and providing needed information.

Causes of swimming pool and drowning accidents

We have handled all types of drowning accident cases, including those in which death or significant injury was caused by:

  • Inadequate life saving equipment
  • Lack of delineation between shallow and deep end of the pool
  • No steps at the edge of the pool for exiting
  • No clearly defined safety plan
  • Inadequate training for lifeguards
  • No buddy system in place
  • No defibrillator available at a public pool

Lawyers dedicated to helping after serious injury or death in a pool accident

If you or your child has been injured in a swimming pool accident, or you are grieving over the death of a loved one in drowning accident, contact an attorney at the South Florida law firm of Toral, Garcia & Franz, Attorneys at Law. We have the experience and the resources to help. From our Fort Lauderdale office, we serve clients throughout Florida