“His feet hit the mat, and almost instantly his knees buckled down, and he just let out the worst scream that you could ever have heard from a child.” That is how Kaitlin “Kati” Hill described the moment her three-year-old son, Colton, suffered a broken femur at a trampoline park. Her warning post was shared over 240,000 times because it captures the silent terror every parent in the Town of New Hope feels when a Saturday afternoon birthday party turns into a medical emergency.
At the Manginello Law Firm—Attorney911—we know that what happened to Colton, and what may have happened to your child in the Town of New Hope, wasn’t a “freak accident.” It was the predictable output of a systemic architecture designed by multi-million dollar corporations like Sky Zone, Inc. and Unleashed Brands (the parent of Urban Air) to maximize jumper throughput while minimizing safety overhead. We are a firm built for this specific fight. Founded by Ralph Manginello, who brings over 25 years of experience to every case, our team includes a former insurance defense attorney, Lupe Peña, who used to sit on the other side of the table. He knows exactly which waiver clauses Texas courts void and which ones they uphold because he used to write them. Since 1998, Ralph Manginello has been making corporate defendants pay for the catastrophic injuries they cause, including traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), spinal cord injuries (SCIs), and wrongful deaths.
One bounce. One bad landing. One life changed forever. If your child was injured at a trampoline park serving the Town of New Hope or on a residential trampoline in a Collin County backyard, the clock is already running. Surveillance video at parks like Sky Zone Frisco or Urban Air McKinney is typically overwritten in as little as 7 to 30 days. Incident reports are frequently “revised” by risk managers before you even have a chance to see them. Our spoliation letters go out within 24 hours of your call—every time. We don’t just “handle” personal injury cases; we dismantle the defense’s playbook. 1-888-ATTY-911 is answered 24/7 because the park’s risk team never stops working, and neither do we.
The Reality of Trampoline Injuries in the Town of New Hope
The commercial trampoline park industry in Texas wants you to believe that jumping is “inherently risky” and that by signing a kiosk waiver, you have accepted whatever happens to your child. We don’t accept that narrative, and neither do the facts. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), trampoline-related emergency room visits exceed 300,000 annually in the United States. In a high-growth region like the DFW metroplex, the intensity of use is even higher. A localized investigation by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram documented over 500 injuries at 21 trampoline parks in the DFW area over a seven-year span.
The medical literature is even more alarming. A landmark study by Teague et al., published in Pediatrics (the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics) in January 2024, analyzed 13,256 injured trampoline park users across 8.4 million jumper-hours. The data showed that foam pit and inflatable bag attractions produced an injury rate of 1.91 per 1,000 jumper-hours, while high-performance jumping zones reached 2.11 per 1,000. Perhaps most significantly, the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR 2024) recently reported that up to 1.6% of all pediatric emergency department trauma visits in the U.S. are now trampoline-related.
This is not a niche recreational hazard; it is a public health crisis that hits families in the Town of New Hope every single week. When a child arrives at a Level 1 pediatric trauma center like Children’s Medical Center Dallas or Medical City Children’s with a shattered limb or a neck injury, the surgeon isn’t looking at an “accident.” They are looking at the biomechanical result of forces the human body—especially a child’s body—is not engineered to absorb. Ralph Manginello has spent 25+ years representing victims of these catastrophic injuries, securing multi-million dollar settlements that provide for a child’s lifetime of care.
Commercial Trampoline Park Mechanisms: Why They Fail
A trampoline is an energy-storage device. It releases that energy back into the jumper with every rebound. In the Town of New Hope, commercial parks like Sky Zone and Urban Air take that energy and multiply it by connecting dozens of trampolines into a single, high-tension field. This design creates a series of failure modes that are well-known to the industry but rarely explained to parents.
The Double-Bounce: A Physics Catastrophe
Through-Line #9 of our firm’s doctrine is the physics of the double-bounce. When a 200-pound adult lands on a mattress at the same moment a 60-pound child from the Town of New Hope is pushing off, the energy transfer can multiply the child’s launch force by up to 400%. The child isn’t jumping anymore; they have become a projectile. This mechanism is the leading cause of “trampoline fractures”—proximal tibial metaphyseal buckle fractures—and catastrophic femur fractures in children.
Foam Pit Failures and Cervical Compression
Foam pits in parks serving Town of New Hope families look soft, but they are often deep-tissue traps. ASTM F2970 is the industry safety standard that governs foam pit depth and density. If the foam blocks are not rotated regularly or if the pit is too shallow, a jumper who lands head-first or feet-first can strike the unyielding concrete floor beneath the foam. Thisaxial loading causes cervical spine hyperflexion, leading to permanent paralysis or SCIWORA (Spinal Cord Injury Without Radiographic Abnormality), where the spinal cord is damaged even if the bones appear intact on initial X-rays.
Ralph Manginello and our firm have memorized the requirements of ASTM F2970. We know that if a park in Collin County fails to maintain foam pit depth to the required level, they have breached their duty of care. This isn’t just negligence; when a park knows the pit is compacted and lets children jump anyway, it is gross negligence.
Harness and Attraction Malfunctions
As parks transition into “Adventure Parks,” they bolt on go-karts, ropes courses, and ziplines. The ispahani case in Sugar Land, Texas, where a 14-year-old fell 30 feet from a climbing wall because an attendant failed to connect the fall-protection equipment, is a horrific example of systemic training failure. In December 2025, six-year-old Emma Riddle was killed at an Urban Air in Florida when an electric go-kart surged forward unexpectedly. These non-trampoline attractions at parks in the DFW metroplex carry the same, if not higher, risks of catastrophic failure.
Call 1-888-ATTY-911 now. Your child’s case depends on what we preserve this week. We advance every expense for biomechanical engineers and pediatric specialists so that your Town of New Hope family doesn’t have to worry about upfront costs while your child is in recovery.
The Myth of the Trampoline Park Waiver in Texas
“But I signed the waiver.” We hear this from Town of New Hope parents every day. They believe the piece of paper they clicked through on an iPad at the front desk of the park stripped them of their rights. At Attorney911, we know the truth: The waiver is a defensive tactic, not a legal wall.
Texas law on waivers is incredibly specific. Under the Dresser Industries v. Page Petroleum “fair notice” doctrine, a waiver that releases a defendant from its own future negligence must be conspicuous and must use the word “negligence” explicitly. Many kiosk waivers used in the DFW area fail these tests. Furthermore, the landmark Texas case Munoz v. II Jaz Inc. established that a parent generally cannot waive a minor child’s personal injury cause of action. While the child’s claim lives on, the parent’s derivative claim for medical bills might be barred—but even then, there are ways to defeat the document.
The most powerful rebuttal to any waiver is the gross negligence carve-out. No waiver in the state of Texas can release a party from gross negligence—conduct that involves an extreme degree of risk that the defendant was subjectively aware of and consciously disregarded. In Harris County, a jury awarded $11.485 million against Cosmic Jump (a $5.485M compensatory and $6M punitive award) because the park knew a trampoline was torn and failed to fix it. The waiver was signed. The jury didn’t care. They saw gross negligence, and they made the park pay.
Additionally, our associate attorney Lupe Peña leverages the Delfingen US-Texas v. Valenzuela doctrine for our Town of New Hope clients whose primary language is Spanish. If you were presented with an English-only iPad waiver and not given a meaningful chance to understand its terms, that waiver may be void on formation grounds. Hablamos Español. Llame al 1-888-ATTY-911. Lupe Peña speaks with you directly—no interpreters, no delays.
Backyard Trampolines and the Attractive Nuisance Doctrine
While commercial parks get most of the attention, many Town of New Hope injuries occur in the backyards of neighborhood homes along roads like FM 1827 or near the Trinity River. Manufacturers like Jumpking (which started in Mesquite, TX), Skywalker, Skywalker, and Bouncepro (sold at Walmart) have massive product-liability footprints. Since 1999, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has consistently advised that trampolines should NOT be used at home.
In a backyard context, the “Waiver” defense doesn’t exist. Instead, we look at the following theories:
Attractive Nuisance in Collin County
Town of New Hope families frequently have large lots where a neighbor’s trampoline is visible from the street or a neighboring yard. Under the Texas “attractive nuisance” doctrine, a homeowner can be liable for injuries to a child trespasser who is drawn to the property by a hazardous condition they are too young to appreciate. If a trampoline is unfenced or left with a ladder in place, it is a textbook attractive nuisance.
Product Liability: Manufacturing and Design Defects
We look for frame weld failures, UV-degraded netting that fails under impact, and inadequate spring padding. ASTM F381 is the safety standard for consumer trampolines. When a Jumpking or Skywalker unit fails because of a design defect that was already subject to a CPSC recall (like the 1,000,000 unit Jumpking recall in 2005 for breaking welds), our firm holds the manufacturer and the retailer accountable.
The Homeowners Insurance Complication
Most homeowners’ insurance policies in the Town of New Hope exclude trampoline injuries. If you are a homeowner whose child was injured, or if you are the parent of a visiting child who was hurt, we look for umbrella policies and excess layers that adjusters “forget” to mention. Ralph Manginello’s 25 years of experience means he knows how to find the money, even when the primary carrier issues a denial letter.
Catastrophic Pediatric Injuries: A Lifelong Medical Map
When children in the Town of New Hope are injured, the damage is fundamentally different from an adult injury. Pediatric bone is less ossified and more pliable. Ligaments are often stronger than the bones they connect. This leads to unique and devastating injury patterns that Attorney911 is built to litigate.
- Salter-Harris Growth Plate Fractures: A fracture through the physis (growth plate) of the distal tibia or femur. These injuries can cause permanent limb-length discrepancy or angular deformity that doesn’t fully manifest until years later. We work with pediatric orthopedic surgeons to build life-care plans that account for ten or fifteen years of corrective surgeries.
- SCIWORA (Spinal Cord Injury Without Radiographic Abnormality): High-energy impacts at trampoline parks can stretch or compress the spinal cord without breaking the vertebrae. A CT scan in a Town of New Hope-area ER might look normal, but the child is paralyzed. We know which experts to hire to prove this mechanism.
- Vertebral Artery Dissection (Spinal Cord Stroke): As seen in the viral 2024 Elle Yona TikTok case (27.4M views), backflips into foam pits can tear the vertebral artery. This was initially misdiagnosed as her having a “panic attack,” but it led to incomplete quadriplegia. We use AJR 2024 radiographic imaging protocols to prove these neurovascular traumas.
The Rhabdomyolysis Bridge: Our Active $10 Million Case
One of the most under-diagnosed trampoline injuries in Texas is exertional rhabdomyolysis. If your child jumps for 90 minutes in a 110-degree Texas summer inside a poorly ventilated park, their muscles can literally begin to dissolve. The breakdown releases myoglobin into the bloodstream, leading to acute kidney failure.
We currently litigate a $10 million lawsuit against the University of Houston and Pi Kappa Phi involving this exact pathology. We know the labs to look for: Creatine Kinase (CK) levels exceeding 10,000 U/L, “cola-colored” urine, and myoglobinuria. If your child arrived at the ER two days after a park visit in Town of New Hope with kidney issues, you need a firm that understands the medicine of rhabdo as well as the law of negligence. That firm is Attorney911.
Why Choose Attorney911? The Moat Statement
Most personal injury firms in North Texas handle a trampoline case the same way they handle a car wreck—they send a demand for the primary policy limits and hope for a quick check. We don’t. We built our practice around the specific systemic failures of the trampoline industry.
- Insider Knowledge: Lupe Peña used to defend insurance companies. He knows the script they use to pressure Town of New Hope parents into “Med-Pay” settlements that release the entire claim for $3,000.
- Corporate Scalability: Ralph Manginello litigated against BP after the Texas City refinery explosion. We are not intimidated by the private equity sponsors (Palladium Equity for Sky Zone, Seidler Equity for Urban Air) who back these national chains. Their fleet of corporate lawyers is familiar to us.
- Medical Depth: We don’t just “read medical records.” We build life-care plans with pediatric physiatrists that quantify the next 70 years of medical costs for your child.
- No Barrier to Justice: We work on a contingency fee basis. We advance all costs—the biomechanical engineer, the digital forensic expert who interrogates the DVR, the pediatric neurology consultant. Your child’s recovery fund stays intact unless we win.
Frequently Asked Questions for Town of New Hope Parents
Can I sue if I signed the waiver on an iPad?
Yes. In Texas, waivers often fail the Dresser conspicuousness test or the Munoz rule protecting minor children. A signature is often the beginning of the case, not the end.
How long do I have to sue a trampoline park in Texas?
The statute of limitations is generally 2 years, but it is tolled for minors until they turn 18. However, the evidence deadline is much shorter. If you wait more than 30 days, the park’s surveillance video of your child’s injury is likely gone.
What is a “double-bounce” and why is it dangerous?
It is a multi-jumper energy transfer. It’s Through-Line #9 in our firm’s doctrine because it multiplies launch force by up to 4x. Children’s bones break because the park failed to separate age groups, which is a direct violation of ASTM F2970.
How much is my child’s case worth?
There is no “average” payout. Verdicts like Cosmic Jump ($11.485M) and Damion Collins ($15.6M) happen when a firm proves gross negligence and systemic failure. Smaller fracture cases still result in mid-six-figure recoveries when future medical care is properly documented.
What should I do if the park says their cameras were “down” that day?
We don’t take their word for it. We look for a “Surveillance Glitch” pattern. If cameras glitched on multiple angles simultaneously, we move for an adverse inference instruction. A Georgia jury recently awarded $3.5M in a case where the park’s video “happened” to fail at the moment of injury.
Final Call: The Clock Is Running in Town of New Hope
What happened to your child at an Urban Air or Sky Zone wasn’t an accident. It was the predictable output of a system. The AAP has been warning about trampolines since 1999. ASTM F2970 was written by the trampoline industry itself as a minimum floor, yet parks across Collin County operate below that floor to hit margin targets during birthday-party rushes. The waiver they want you to believe in was drafted by corporate lawyers who knew it wouldn’t hold up in a Texas court, but they counted on you not hiring someone who knew that.
Attorney911 was built for this fight. Ralph Manginello has spent 25+ years holding the biggest corporations in America accountable. Our knowledge base covers every state, every chain, and every medical pathology from Salter-Harris fractures to rhabdomyolysis.
Your child’s case is decided by what gets preserved TODAY. If you wait until next month, the Saturday shift log is gone. The attendant who wasn’t watching has quit. The DVR has overwritten the video. Our spoliation letter is already drafted—we just need your name.
Call 1-888-ATTY-911. Hablamos Español. No fee unless we win. We represent families. We represent children. We represent the parent who refuses to be told a piece of paper matters more than their child’s spine.
Call 1-888-ATTY-911. The case starts today.
