Children's Severe Injuries and Wrongful Death

Kirby & Holt - North Carolina Child Injury Attorneys

Many of Kirby & Holt's most significant and substantial settlements and jury verdicts have involved serious or fatal injuries to children. We won the largest personal injury verdict in North Carolina history for a young girl's severe injuries caused by a defective wading pool drain. And we secured the largest birth injury settlement in state history for a child injured at birth.

Our experience with the investigation and proof of liability and damages in cases involving children's severe injuries or fatal accidents can help families who are enduring the trauma of a disabling injury to their child. We also hope that our experience with assisting families through the crisis of a child's serious or permanent injury can help other families who are facing this challenge for the first time.

The North Carolina personal injury lawyers of Kirby & Holt can help families recover for serious or fatal injuries to their child in such situations as:

• Birth injuries, such as cerebral palsy, due to negligence in the delivery room
• Serious motor vehicle accidents, including truck collisions
• Severe burns or scalding
• Accidents in the water, including swimming pools, boats, and diving injuries
• Medical errors in diagnosing serious illness
• Injuries resulting in amputation or paralysis
• Accidents resulting in quadriplegia
• Traumatic brain injuries

Our interest in the welfare of injured and disabled children has not only led to our focus on birth injury litigation, but has also inspired our support for a variety of children’s causes.

Among the charitable work for children we do:

• Lead sponsor of the annual fund-raising auction for Easter Seals/UCP
• Founded the Carli Snell Endowment Fund, which provides in-home therapies to clients of the Easter Seals UCP Center in Charlotte.
• Established the Luke Wilcox Scholarship Fund to provide therapeutic horseback riding for North Carolina children.
• Funded the first public adaptive playground for disabled children in New Hanover County.

Many projects of our own Kirby & Holt Foundation are also devoted to the promotion of children's health issues. For additional information about our firm's involvement with children's issues or our ability to represent the family of an injured child, contact Kirby & Holt in Raleigh.

For further information about our ability to help your family overcome a crisis involving your child's serious injury or death, contact the North Carolina child injury attorneys at Kirby & Holt.