A lawsuit has been filed against Pop Warner, a non-profit
organization that provides youth football, cheerleading, and dance programs,
after a 13-year-old athlete became paralyzed during a football game. The lawsuit states the teen sustained a
“catastrophic spinal cord injury” and that he has minimal use of his arms and
no movement from the chest down after he tackled a player using a headfirst
technique encouraged by coaches, despite the organizations rules to the
contrary. The teen’s mother said her son
is confined to a bed and wheelchair. He
suffers from pressure sores and has to use a colostomy bag and catheter. The lawsuit seeks unspecified punitive
damages for negligence, negligent training of coaches and negligent
supervision. Medical bills have exceeded
$2 million and insurance covers approximately 80%, leaving the teen’s mother on
the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars. She wonders how she will pay,
but also what happens once her son becomes an adult.
This case is real and the tragedy that
occurred was preventable and avoidable if only rules were followed. This young man’s life has obviously been
turned upside down. He may never be able to achieve the education he should or
fulfill career and life-long dreams he once had; all this potentially due to
the negligence of his football coach.
While waiting for the case to wind its way through the legal
system, pre-settlement funding
may be available to help cover medical and care expenses, urgent financial
issues and other necessities of life funding. Applying for legal funding
is often the perfect solution for plaintiffs who are in financial need as a
result of serious injuries caused by no fault of their own. Once the lawsuit
cash advance is approved, funds can be available in less than 48
hours. There are no upfront fees, no
monthly payments, and no credit checks.
Best of all, repayment is made once the plaintiff successfully settles,
but if the case is unsuccessfully, the cash advance is completely waived.
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