Personal Injury and Wrongful Death

Baby Suffocation Lawsuit

Our law firm represents families in lawsuits against manufacturers, and we have recovered millions on their behalf. We are currently representing a family whose baby suffocated while in a baby sling/carrier.

As part of our representation of a family of a 3-month-old baby who died soon after being in an Infantino SlingRider, child safety lawyer Fred Pritzker filed a report with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) regarding the death. A few weeks later, on Friday, March 12, the CPSC issued an official warning regarding the risk to babies of suffocation associated with infant sling use.

Read our response to the CPSC warning and call for recalls of certain baby slings -- Baby Sling Death Lawyer Press Release >>

We are a national law firm, and attorneys at our firm have been interviewed and quoted by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Lawyers USA and others. Attorneys Fred Pritzker, Elliot Olsen and Eric Hageman were named "Super Lawyers" by Law & Politics (August 2009).

To contact Pritzker Olsen law firm about a baby suffocation lawsuit, please call 1-888-377-8900 (toll free), email Attorney Fred Pritzker or submit our online form for a free consultation.

Baby Suffocation Information

Below is baby suffocation information on the following:

  • Baby Suffocation in a Crib
  • Baby Sling and Carrier Suffocation
  • Baby Suffocations Involving Other Products
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Baby Suffocation in a Crib

When a baby suffocates in a crib it is usually due to the bedding, soft toys, a poorly-fitting mattress or a defective crib design. If a defective crib is the cause of the suffocation, the family has a right to seek money damages in a wrongful death lawsuit. Contact Pritzker Olsen Attorneys about a baby wrongful death case.

Crib suffocation is one of the biggest hazards prompting crib recalls. Crib suffocation happens most often under circumstances where babies become trapped in a space between the mattress and side rail of the crib, often because hardware fails and the side rail becomes detached. Many reported baby deaths involving cribs have been drop-side crib deaths.

To prevent your baby from being suffocated while in his or her crib:

  1. Tighten all nuts, bolts, and screws periodically.
  2. Whenever crib is moved, be sure all mattress support hangers are secure.
  3. Check hooks regularly to be sure non are broken or bent. Open hooks may allow the mattress to fall.
  4. Use a crib which meets Federal Safety Standards and Industry Voluntary Standards for cribs and has a firm tight-fitting mattress.
  5. Check the CPSC children's product recall list to make sure your crib has not been recalled.

Baby Sling and Carrier Suffocation

We are representing a family whose baby died while in a baby sling and are investigating whether the death was caused by positional asphyxia (suffocation due to the air passageways being closed when the baby's head is pushed into the baby's chest). This can happen when a baby is forced into this position by the design of the baby sling. We would recommend the following to protect your baby when using a baby sling or carrier:

  1. Use your baby sling or carrier according to the manufacturer's instructions.
  2. Do not use old baby slings or carriers.
  3. Before purchasing, check how wide the leg openings are, if there are any, to see if a baby could slip through (it has happened).
  4. Before purchasing, try test it out to see if a baby's head will be pushed into his or her chest.
  5. Before purchasing, try test it out to see if a baby's face could be forced into the fabric, which would present a suffocation hazard.
  6. Before purchasing, try test it out to see if a baby could easily fall.
  7. If your sling or carrier brakes, throw it out.
  8. Periodically check out the CPSC children's product recall list to make sure your baby sling or carrier has not been recalled.

Read baby sling death information.

Baby Suffocations Involving Other Products

Infant Cushions: Suffocation Hazard CPSC banned the infant cushion in 1992. Destroy any infant cushions still in consumers' homes. In 1992, the U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) banned infant cushions that were involved in 36 infant suffocations. The Commission took action previously to remove existing products from the marketplace and from consumers. The CPSC's action stemmed from the concern that other manufacturers might begin production of the same or simi-lar products. A ban of infant cushions can assure that this product does not reappear into the marketplace. A death that occurred two years after the initial recall announcement underscores that infant cushions not destroyed may find their way back into infant use at a later date.

Air Mattresses: Never place infants to sleep on air mattresses. Since 2002, CPSC has received reports of 16 tragic deaths, mostly infants younger than 8 months of age who were placed to sleep on air mattresses: 11 suffocated in a face down position on an air mattress and 5 died due to suffocation after falling into gaps between the mattress and bed frame and mattress and adjacent furniture or wall. Even properly inflated air mattresses are usually too soft for infants to maintain a clear airway.

Beds: The CPSC has reports of more than 100 deaths of children under age 2, most from suffocation, associated with features of adult beds. These deaths involve an entrapment, a fall, or a situation in which bedding or the position of the child was related to the death. Nearly all of the children, 98%, were babies under 1 year old.

Mesh-Sided Playpens: Defective playpens may not lock securely and may collapse. Parents should always check to make sure the sides of a collapsible playpen are secure before use. If one side unintentionally collapses, the lowered position forms a hazardous "pocket" or "gap" that the baby may become entrapped in and suffocate.

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