At the Urban Air in Waco or the Xtreme Jump in Temple—the two major hubs serving families in Lorena—a Saturday afternoon can change a child’s life in exactly two seconds. You were likely there for a birthday party or a reward for a good report card. You stood at a kiosk along the I-35 corridor, typed in your child’s name, and clicked “I agree” on a scroll of legal text no one has ever read in its entirety. Within minutes, your child was airborne. Within seconds of that, they were in the cargo area of an ambulance heading toward McLane Children’s Medical Center in Temple.
We have spent more than 25 years standing at the hospital bedsides of families exactly like yours. Since founding our firm in 1998, Ralph Manginello has gone head-to-head with some of the largest corporate conglomerates in the world, including BP, Walmart, and Amazon. We are now bringing that same relentless litigation power to the trampoline park industry across Lorena and Central Texas.
What the park manager told you in the lobby was that it was a “freak accident.” What the insurance adjuster will tell you tomorrow is that you “signed a waiver.” Both of those statements are professionally designed distractions. At Attorney911, we operate from a different master premise: a trampoline injury is never an accident. It is the predictable output of a business decision that prioritized profit margins over pediatric safety.
Whether your child is facing a Salter-Harris growth plate fracture, a traumatic brain injury (TBI), or a life-altering spinal cord injury, you need a Lorena trampoline injury lawyer who knows the industry’s secret playbook. We know that Sky Zone, Inc. (formerly CircusTrix LLC), backed by the multi-billion dollar Palladium Equity Partners, and Unleashed Brands (the parent of Urban Air, acquired by Seidler Equity Partners in 2023) operate on a system. That system relies on you believing a piece of paper you signed at a kiosk ended your rights. It didn’t. In Texas, we have the tools to dismantle those waivers—and we’ve been winning these battles for over two decades.
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The Worst Scream: Why We Fight for Lorena Families
Kaitlin “Kati” Hill, a Texas mother whose son Colton was injured at a “Toddler Time” session, described the moment of injury in a way that resonates with every parent we represent. She told ABC News it was “the worst scream that you could ever have heard from a child.” Her three-year-old had a broken femur and spent months in a body cast. Her warning to other parents was shared 240,000 times on Facebook.
In Harris County, a sixteen-year-old named Max Menchaca fell through a tear in a trampoline slide at Cosmic Jump. He hit the concrete floor beneath the mat, suffering a skull fracture and traumatic brain injury. A Texas jury looked at the evidence—which proved the park knew about the tear and ignored it—and awarded $11.485 million, including $6 million in punitive damages. The park had a signed waiver. The jury found gross negligence anyway.
That Harris County verdict is the largest reported trampoline park award in U.S. history, and it is the benchmark we use for every Lorena case we evaluate. Whether your injury happened at a major chain or a local independent facility, the mechanisms of catastrophic injury are identical, and the evidence is already beginning to disappear.
The Evidence Clock: Why the Next 7 Days Are Critical
While you are focused on orthopedic surgeons and physical therapy schedules, the park’s risk management team is already at work. In Lorena and across McLennan County, evidence in trampoline cases is engineered to vanish on a schedule:
| Evidence Type | Overwrite/Destruction Window |
|---|---|
| Surveillance DVR Footage | 7 to 30 days (industry standard) |
| Kiosk Waiver Metadata | 72 hours to 30 days (rolling purge) |
| Incident Report Revisions | Within 48 hours of the event |
| Foam Pit Rotation Logs | Weekly or monthly (subject to “correction”) |
| Staffing Time-Clocks | Varies (highly volatile post-injury) |
By the time you receive your first call from an insurance adjuster, the video of your child’s injury may already be gone. That is why our office sends a formal spoliation letter via certified mail within 24 hours of being retained. We demand the preservation of not just the video, but the native DVR hardware, the time-clock records for every monitor on shift, and the training files for the attendants.
Most Lorena personal injury firms handle a trampoline case like a slip-and-fall. We handle it like a forensic event. We deploy digital forensic examiners to capture write-blocked images of park servers. We use tools like Magnet AXIOM and Cellebrite to recover deleted version histories of incident reports. If the park tells us the video “glitched,” we don’t take their word for it. We look for a pattern similar to the Mathew Knight case in Georgia, where a jury awarded $3.5 million after the defense surveillance happened to malfunction on four cameras simultaneously.
The Lorena Landscape: Saturated Risks on the I-35 Corridor
Lorena families live in one of the densest trampoline park markets in the state. Within a 20-minute drive, children have access to:
- Urban Air Waco: The flagship of the Michael Browning Jr. empire.
- Xtreme Jump Temple: A 60,000-square-foot facility—the largest of its kind in Central Texas.
- Altitude Trampoline Park: Headquartered in Fort Worth with a massive North Texas footprint.
On a typical Saturday, these parks serve hundreds of jumpers an hour. When throughput peaks, safety standards slip. ASTM F2970-22—the voluntary standard the trampoline industry wrote about itself—requires specific monitor-to-jumper ratios. In the rest of the developed world, standards like EN ISO 23659:2022 are mandatory. In Texas, they are often treated as “suggestions” until a child is hurt.
When your child is at a park in the Waco-Temple-Belton corridor, they are jumping on equipment that may not have been inspected by a state regulator in years. The Texas Department of Insurance regulates only the “Class B” inflatables inside the park—the ziplines and bungee tramps. The main trampoline decks themselves are statutorily excluded from state inspection under Tex. Occ. Code § 2151.002(1)(C)(iv). This regulatory gap is the first negligence hook we use to hold operators accountable.
Double-Bounce Physics: The Catapult Mechanism
The most frequent mechanism of catastrophic injury we see in Lorena is the double-bounce. The physics are simple and devastating. A trampoline mat stores elastic potential energy. When a 200-pound adult lands on the mat while a 60-pound child is pushing off, that energy transfers instantly to the smaller jumper.
The child isn’t jumping anymore; they’re being launched with up to 4x their original force. This results in apex velocities that a child’s skeletal system cannot absorb on landing. Common results of double-bouncing include:
- Femoral Shaft Fractures: Frequently requiring open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) with intramedullary nailing.
- Salter-Harris Growth Plate Injuries: Damage that may not fully manifest until the child reaches adolescence, appearing as a limb-length discrepancy or angular deformity years later.
- Cervical Spine Trauma: SCIWORA (Spinal Cord Injury Without Radiographic Abnormality) is a pediatric-specific danger where the cord is injured despite “normal” CT scans.
If your child was double-bounced at a park near Lorena, the attendant on duty was required by ASTM F2970 to separate jumpers by weight and size. If they failed to do so, they violated the industry’s own safety manual. That isn’t an accident. That is a breach of the duty of care.
Texas Waiver Law: Why Your Signature Isn’t a Shield
Every parent in Lorena is told the same lie: “You signed the waiver, so you can’t sue.” As an attorney once on the defense side of these cases, Lupe Peña knows exactly how to tear these documents apart. Texas law provides four distinct attack vectors to defeat a trampoline park waiver:
1. The Munoz Doctrine: You Cannot Waive Your Child’s Rights
In the landmark case Munoz v. II Jaz, Inc., a Texas appellate court in Houston ruled that a parent’s pre-injury signature cannot legally bind a minor child’s separate cause of action for personal injuries. While the parent might waive their own right to sue for medical bills, the child’s claim for pain, suffering, impairment, and future medical needs remains legally alive.
2. The Dresser “Fair Notice” Rule
Under Dresser Industries v. Page Petroleum, a Texas release of liability must be conspicuous. It must use the word “negligence” explicitly and be presented in a way that a reasonable person would notice—not buried in a 20-page digital terms-of-service click-through. Most kiosk waivers failed this test the day they were installed.
3. The Gross Negligence Carve-Out
Texas courts, following the Moriel standard, will not enforce a waiver where the injury resulted from gross negligence. As proven in the Cosmic Jump $11.485M verdict, if a park has subjective awareness of a risk (like a torn mat or broken harness) and shows conscious indifference to your child’s safety, the waiver becomes a legal nullity.
4. The Delfingen Bilingual Attack
For Lorena’s Spanish-speaking families, the case of Delfingen US-Texas, L.P. v. Valenzuela is vital. If your family’s primary language is Spanish and the park presented an English-only iPad waiver without translation or explanation, that agreement may be void for lack of valid formation.
If your family was forced to sign an English-only document at an Urban Air or Sky Zone, call 1-888-ATTY-911. Lupe Peña will evaluate your specific waiver formation.
Rhabdomyolysis: The Under-Recognized Medical Emergency
Our firm is currently litigating a $10 million lawsuit against the University of Houston involving rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney failure. This experience translates directly to trampoline cases. Rhabdo occurs when muscle tissue breaks down from overexertion or heat, releasing myoglobin into the blood.
In Central Texas summer heat, children can spend 90 to 120 minutes jumping in poorly ventilated facilities. If your child exhibits any of the following 12 to 48 hours after a jump session in the Lorena area, go to an emergency room immediately:
- “Cola-colored” or dark brown urine.
- Muscle pain wildly out of proportion to the activity.
- Listlessness, vomiting, or confusion.
- Thigh or calf swelling.
Do not accept a “dehydration” diagnosis without a Creatine Kinase (CK) blood test. CK levels in severe trampoline-related rhabdo cases can exceed 50,000 U/L (normal is under 200). We have the medical experts ready to prove that the park’s failure to provide hydration protocols or rest breaks caused your child’s organ failure.
The 5-Layer Defendant Stack: Going Upstream for Recovery
When we sue Urban Air, Sky Zone, or Altitude on behalf of a Lorena family, we don’t just stop at the local LLC. The local operator is often undercapitalized by design. We build a case that reaches every layer of the corporate hierarchy:
- Operator LLC: The entity that hired the untrained teenagers.
- The Franchisee: The ownership group that chose to cut staffing to hit margin targets.
- The Franchisor (UATP Management, Sky Zone Franchising LLC): The entities that dictate operations. In the Damion Collins case in Kansas, the franchisor absorbed 40% of a $15.6 million award.
- The Corporate Parent (Sky Zone, Inc. / Unleashed Brands): The deep pockets.
- The Equipment Manufacturer (Jumpking, Skywalker, UA Attractions LLC): When a mat fails or a zip-line harness unsnaps (as alleged in the Lakhani/Sugar Land case), the manufacturer is a primary defendant.
We have the federal court experience to pierce these layers. We have litigated against Fortune 500 corporations, and the private equity firms behind these jump chains do not intimidate us. We know which insurance layers sit above the primary $1M GL policy—the umbrella, the excess, and the franchisor’s additional-insured tower.
The Specialized World of Lorena Backyard Trampolines
The danger isn’t limited to commercial parks. Backyard trampolines are ubiquitous in Lorena neighborhoods. If your child was injured on a neighbor’s Jumpking, Skywalker, or Springfree trampoline, the legal landscape shifts to premises liability and the Attractive Nuisance Doctrine.
Texas law recognizes that trampolines are magnets for children who do not understand the risks. If a homeowner leaves a trampoline accessible (no fence, ladder in place) and a neighborhood child is injured, the homeowner’s insurance—or an umbrella policy—may be liable.
We also investigate Product Liability for Lorena families. Millions of trampolines have been recalled for frame weld failures (Jumpking, Super Jumper) and netting breakage (Walmart’s Bouncepro line). If a product defect caused the injury, we pursue the manufacturer and the retailer (Walmart, Amazon, Academy Sports) concurrently.
Why Choose Attorney911 for Your Lorena Trampoline Case?
We represent families. We represent the parent who is currently sitting in a pediatric ICU in Temple or Austin, trying to figure out how they will pay for 15 years of orthopedic monitoring.
Our commitment to you:
- Zero Upfront Costs: We advance every expense—the biomechanical engineers, the pediatric orthopedic consultants, and the ASTM compliance experts.
- Contingency Basis: You pay nothing unless we win. Our recovery is tied to your child’s recovery.
- Structural Edge: Our team includes an attorney who used to represent the very insurance carriers we now fight. We know their “Recorded Statement Trap” and their “Med-Pay Trojan Horse” moves.
- Medical Depth: We build 70-year Pediatric Life Care Plans that quantify the real cost of a Salter-Harris fracture or a traumatic brain injury. We know that a settlement that only covers today’s hospital bill is a loss for your child.
As client Donald Wilcox said: “One company said they would not accept my case. Then I got a call from Manginello… I got a call to come pick up this handsome check.”
Lorena Trampoline Injury FAQ
Q: Can I sue if the park attendant was a teenager?
A: Yes. The age of the attendant doesn’t shield the park. In fact, placing an inadequately trained minor in charge of a high-risk court is evidence of negligent hiring and training.
Q: Urban Air’s waiver says my child is bound to arbitration. Is that true?
A: Following the 2025 Texas Supreme Court ruling in Cerna v. Pearland Urban Air, many courts will enforce delegation clauses in Texas. However, this does not mean your case is over—it means the forum has shifted to arbitration. We have won multi-million dollar arbitration awards, including the $15.6M Damion Collins victory against Urban Air.
Q: How much is my child’s case worth?
A: Settlements for pediatric fractures with growth disturbance often anchor in the $500,000 to $2 million range. Catastrophic spinal or brain injuries reach into the $5M to $25M+ range. Every case is unique, which is why we retain forensic economists to calculate the lifetime loss of earning capacity and medical inflation.
Q: The park said there was no video. What do I do?
A: Never take their word for it. We subpoena the DVR hard drives, access logs, and demand an IT affidavit. If the video was overwritten after the injury was reported, we may be entitled to an adverse inference instruction at trial.
Q: How long do I have to sue a trampoline park in Texas?
A: For adults, you have 2 years. For minors, the time is tolled until they turn 18, meaning they have until their 20th birthday. But wait for no one. The evidence (video and witnesses) disappears in 30 days. Your lawyer needs to be on-site this week.
A Note for Families from Lorena and McLennan County
What happened to your child wasn’t your fault. You let them jump because you wanted them to have a childhood of laughter and play. The park accepted your money in exchange for a duty to follow safety standards. They chose to let a 200-pound adult on a court with your child. They chose to leave the harness unattached. They chose to ignore the tears in the mats.
We are here to help you name those choices and make them pay.
Call 1-888-ATTY-911 or (888) 288-9911 today for a free, confidential consultation. We answer 24/7. Our Houston, Austin, and Beaumont offices are ready to deploy the moment you hang up.
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Frequently Asked Questions for Lorena Parents
“Can I sue if I signed the waiver?”
Yes. In Texas, waivers are vulnerable on multiple fronts. They do not cover gross negligence, and under the Munoz doctrine, they generally do not bind your minor child’s direct claims in Central Texas courts.
“Should I take my kid to a trampoline park at all?”
The American Academy of Pediatrics has advised against recreational trampoline use since 1999. If you do go, perform a “Lobby Inspection”—check for under-cushioned frames, inattentive monitors on their phones, and over-crowded courts.
“Are trampoline parks safe for toddlers / kids under 6?”
ASTM F381 and the AAP both state children under 6 should not use trampolines. If a Lorena area park markets “Toddler Time” to 3-year-olds, they are affirmatively encouraging a prohibited activity, which is a prime negligence argument.
“My kid broke a bone at the park. What do I do?”
- Get to a Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center immediately.
- Do not sign anything at the park (no “satisfaction” forms).
- Photograph the scene and the monitor’s location.
- Call 1-888-ATTY-911 before the park overwrites the security footage.
“How do I tell if they were negligent vs. just an accident?”
An accident is an unpredictable event. Negligence is failing to maintain the 8-inch foam pit depth required by ASTM F2970. Cross-referencing park logs against industry standards is how we prove the difference.
“Does the park have to give me the incident report or video?”
They won’t give it to you voluntarily. They frequently refuse. We use the power of the Texas court system to compel production of the native video files and every revised version of the incident report.
“They wouldn’t call 911—is that legal?”
It’s a documented industry pattern (e.g., Urban Air Southlake). While most states don’t have a “Good Samaritan” law requiring a call, a park’s failure to summon EMS for a child with a spinal injury is powerful evidence of recklessness and gross negligence.
“Can they make my minor child waive their rights?”
Not in Texas. A minor lacks the legal capacity to contract. Even a parent’s signature is highly restricted by Texas courts when it comes to a child’s future safety.
“What is a ‘double bounce’ and why is everyone talking about it?”
It’s the mass-ratio energy transfer that launches a child with 4x force. It is the #1 cause of growth-plate destruction in Central Texas trampoline parks.
“Is an iPad / kiosk waiver even enforceable?”
Many are thrown out for “lack of fair notice” if the text is too small, the screen was rushed, or the language lacks specific “negligence” disclosures required by the Dresser case.
“Should I let my kid go to a birthday party there?”
If you do, designate a “rail parent” to watch the court monitors. If you weren’t the one who signed the waiver—for instance, if the party host signed for your kid—your child is not bound by the waiver at all.
“Why did no staff stop the bigger kids from jumping with my little one?”
Because hiring 17-year-olds for $11 an hour leads to supervision failure. We subpoena the training records of every staff member on shift to show they weren’t qualified to protect your child.
“Is my homeowner’s or health insurance going to cover this?”
Health insurance will seek subrogation (they will want to be paid back from your settlement). Homeowner’s insurance usually has a “Trampoline Exclusion.” The only way to truly cover the medical bill is to pursue the park’s multi-million dollar liability tower.
“How long do I have to do something—is there a deadline?”
While the child has until age 20 in Texas, the evidence has a deadline of 30 days or less. If the video is gone, the case is infinitely harder to win. Call today.
Kill-Shot Closing Sequence
What happened to your child at the trampoline park wasn’t an accident—it was the predictable output of a multi-billion dollar system designed by private equity firms like Palladium and Seidler. The AAP has been warning about these hazards since 1999. The industry wrote its own safety standard, ASTM F2970, and then chose to operate below it to protect quarterly margins. The waiver you signed was drafted by corporate counsel who knew it wouldn’t hold in a Texas court, but counted on you not knowing that.
Attorney911 was built for exactly this fight. Ralph Manginello brings 25+ years of catastrophic injury experience, including federal-court litigation against industry giants like BP. Lupe Peña used to sit on the other side—he knows which warehouse-park strategies the insurance companies will deploy first. Our active $10 million UH rhabdomyolysis case uses the same experts and medical architecture required to win your Lorena trampoline injury case.
Your child’s future is decided by what gets preserved this week. Surveillance DVRs in McLennan County overwrite in as little as 7 days. Waiver databases purge. Attendants who saw your child fall transfer to other states. Incident reports are being “finalized” (revised) as you read this. In Texas, the evidence vanishes long before the statute of limitations expires. We file fast. We invest the capital to win.
Call 1-888-ATTY-911 now. Hablamos Español. No fee unless we win. We advance every expense—the biomechanist, the pediatric orthopedic surgeon, the life-care planner. Your child’s recovery fund stays untouched. Our spoliation letter goes out within 24 hours of your call. The case starts now.
