At this time of year in Norfolk/Virginia Beach, Virginia (VA) and across Hampton Roads, in Newport News, Williamsburg, Suffolk, Portsmouth, and Chesapeake, Virginia (VA) people are getting their pools ready for the summer months. Pool safety is key.
At this time of year in Norfolk/Virginia Beach, Virginia (VA) and across Hampton Roads, in Newport News, Williamsburg, Suffolk, Portsmouth, and Chesapeake, Virginia (VA) people are getting their pools ready for the summer months. Pool safety is key. With increased swimming in pools, and use of diving boards, there are greater chances of head injuries and drowning deaths. Pools are supposed to be well marked to show what the water depth is, to prevent people jumping in and getting closed head trauma or spinal cord injuries. However, a significant number of children and adults will be hurt in diving accidents during the summer, sometimes involving significant damage to the brain, or even causing paralysis of the limbs as a result of hitting the head, or neck, on the pool’s hard bottom.
If you are in charge of a residential or public pool, please make sure that all necessary safety measures are taken to reduce this kind of accident. Likewise, pool owners, and operators, need to be careful to prevent drowning death, particularly of the very young. Pools have to have sufficient gates and barriers to keep out little kids, unaccompanied by parents. If you are in charge of children, make sure you know where they are and keep them away from pools without adult supervision. If someone in your family has been hurt, or killed in an accident involving a swimming pool or diving board, please contact a personal injury lawyer, to look into what your options are as far as taking legal action against the swimming pool’s owner or managers who fail to take reasonable steps to protect the public.
Rick Shapiro has practiced personal injury law for over 30 years in Virginia, North Carolina, and throughout the Southeastern United States. He is a Board-Certified Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy (ABA Accredited) and has litigated injury cases throughout the eastern United States, including wrongful death, trucking, faulty products, railroad, and medical negligence claims. During his three-decade career, Shapiro has won client appeals before the VA Supreme Court, VA Court of Appeals, NC Supreme Court, SC Supreme Court, WV Supreme Court, TN Supreme Court, and three times before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, underscoring Shapiro’s trial achievements. In addition, he and his law firm have won settlements/verdicts in excess of $100 million. His success in and out of the courtroom is a big reason why he was named 2019 “Lawyer of the Year” in railroad law in U.S. News & World Report's Best Lawyers publication (Norfolk, VA area), and he has been named a “Best Lawyer” and “Super Lawyer” by those peer-reviewed organizations for multiple years. Rick was also named a “Leader in the Law, Class of 2022” by Virginia Lawyers Weekly (total of 33 statewide honorees consisting of lawyers and judges across Virginia). And in September 2023, Rick was selected as a recipient of the National Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA) 2023 President’s Award. Although many nominations were submitted from across the country, Rick was just one of eight attorneys chosen by the prestigious National Board which certifies civil trial attorneys across the U.S. Rick was also recently named to Virginia Lawyers Weekly 2024 Virginia’s Go To Lawyers Medical Malpractice. The attorneys awarded this honor are nominated by their colleagues and chosen by a panel from the publication.
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