The United States Federal Government is scheduled to study how child safety seats fair in side-impact car wrecks. There are currently no federal standards that regulate the manufacturing of child safety seats to withstand a side-impact car wreck. Special products are already in stores that have been developed by European manufacturers.

Child safety seats are designed to offer protection in front-impact car wrecks, which is the most common form of car wreck. Side-impact car wrecks have the highest rate of serious injury and fatality. In a side-impact car wreck, a child can sustain serious injuries to the head, face, chest and thorax, due to improperly designed child safety seats.

Currently, there is no way to test if the newly manufactured safety features for child car seats will be effective in side-impact car wrecks.

In the United States, there is no way to document the effectiveness of the products since there is no standard crash test dummy or test procedure. American car safety seat manufactures will not begin producing safety products until the Federal Government establishes procedures and guidelines, which is scheduled for later this year.

If your child, or the child of a loved one, has been seriously or fatally injured in a car wreck due to defects in a child safety seat, contact a child safety seat attorney at Cappolino Dodd Krebs LLP at 1-800-460-0606. An experienced child safety seat lawyer will be able to evaluate if you are eligible to seek compensation.

Evenflo is voluntarily recalling over 1,00,000 Discovery child safety seats. The product consists of a carrier that locks into a base, which is strapped into the back seat of a vehicle with a seat belt. Studies show that the carrier may separate from the base in a side-impact collision.

The Evenflo recall effects all Evenflo Discovery seats manufactured from April 2005 to January 29, 2008. The model numbers of the seats recalled are:

• 390
• 391
• 534
• 552

Those who own Evenflo Discovery seats that are affected by the recall, can call the company to obtain a free fastening system that the company claims will fix the problem.

The Evenflo Discovery safety seat recall is the first to involve tests of side-impact collisions. Standards for side-impact collisions have not been established by the Federal government. Currently, only standards for front-end collisions are required to be met.

A Florida family has filed a lawsuit against Evenflo stating that the defect applies to child safety seats manufactured as far back as 2000. The daughter of the Florida family was injured during a side-impact collision while restrained in an Evenflo Discovery child safety seat.

If your child, or the child of a loved one, has been seriously or fatally injured in a car wreck due to defects in a child safety seat, contact a child safety seat defect attorney at Cappolino Dodd Krebs LLP at 1-800-460-0606. An experienced child safety seat defect lawyer will be able to evaluate if you are eligible to seek compensation.