Sporting activities are usually carried out with an assumption of risks. This is why with each sports activity, there are regimens, tools, and protective gears to promote safety and prevent sports injuries.
However, sports injuries are recorded annually despite these precautions, with some mild and some highly disastrous.
According to an article by John Hopkins Medicine, “in the U.S., about 30 million children and teens participate in some form of organized sports, and more than 3.5 million injuries each year, which cause some loss of time of participation, are experienced by the participants. Almost one-third of all injuries incurred in childhood are sports-related injuries.”
Different sporting activities like soccer, badminton, field hockey, volleyball, basketball, tennis, skydiving, and cricket to snorkeling all require some care which may be compromised when certain circumstances come to the fore.
Such circumstances include direct malicious attack, negligence, faulty facilities, and poor training regimen.
In an article by Medbroadcast, it was revealed that “sports injuries are most commonly caused by poor training methods; structural abnormalities; weakness in muscles, tendons, ligaments; and unsafe exercising environments.”
With all these causes in mind, different parties can be held responsible for sports injuries.
Legal Animation in Portraying Fault In Sports Injuries Cases
Sports injuries may not be the fault of another person as these kinds of activities are naturally known to cause strains on the muscles, amongst other things.
However, in some instances, the injury may be the sole fault of another person, whether by action or by omission. Legal animation would come in handy to show fault even amid the busyness associated with sports.
Here are some of the possible causes of sports injuries:
- Faulty facilities
Faulty sporting facilities can lead to severe and mild injuries in athletes ranging from strains, fractures to brain injuries. The facility may have been provided by a manufacturing company or constructed by a particular construction company.
When an accident occurs because of the facilities, the owners of the facilities can be held liable for failure to provide a safe environment for sports. The manufacturer or construction company can equally be held liable.
Legal animation can show the parts of machinery that are faulty and how such fault has led to the malfunction which caused the sports injury.
- Negligence
During most sporting activities like football or basketball, there is usually a professional in the form of a coach meant to stand as an authority on what and what not to do.
If a professional with full knowledge of what is right directs an athlete to perform an activity that may be detrimental to their wellbeing, the coach may be held liable.
It should be proven in this instance that the athlete had been relying on the expertise of the professional.
Legal animation can depict the result of a professional’s negligence in the form of an injury to another person. This can come to play if your child sustains an injury during a school sport.
- Malicious intent
During sporting activities, accidents are not entirely avoidable. This is why insurance coverage is usually taken to indemnify such risks.
However, where an athlete targets another athlete to cause harm to the other person, the person would be held liable for the injury that has been afflicted.
Malicious intent only exists in the mind, but the defendant’s action can show malicious intent.
In this situation, legal animation would be needed as a lot of geography and physics would be required to depict trajectory, motion, force, mass, and impact.
In conclusion, sports injuries can be severe and need to be reported and treated as soon as the injuries happen.
Therefore, it is essential to employ legal animation to promote the success of your case further. The assistance of a legal animation company would be needed to ensure that quality and court-worthy animations are made.
