“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 during a “Toddler Time” session at a trampoline park. Her warning, shared hundreds of thousands of times by parents across the country, ended with a haunting realization: “We had no idea. We would have never put our baby boy on a trampoline if we would have known.”
If your family is living through a similar nightmare in City of Troy, we understand the terror of the trauma bay and the overwhelming guilt that follows a signature on a kiosk waiver. We are the attorneys of Attorney911 and The Manginello Law Firm, and we are here to tell you that what happened to your child wasn’t a “freak accident.” It was the predictable output of a system that puts profit margins ahead of pediatric safety.
For more than 25 years, our founder Ralph Manginello has gone head-to-head with corporate giants like BP, Walmart, Amazon, and FedEx. We have recovered multi-million dollar settlements for victims of traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord damage, and wrongful death—the exact categories of harm produced by a poorly maintained trampoline court or a defective backyard mat in City of Troy. We are currently litigating a $10 million lawsuit against the University of Houston involving rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney failure, the same life-threatening muscle breakdown seen when children are allowed to jump into exhaustion on a hot Texas afternoon.
When you call us at 1-888-ATTY-911, you aren’t just getting a legal team; you are getting a specialized arsenal. Our associate attorney, Lupe Peña, used to sit on the other side of the table. He spent years defending insurance companies and recreational facilities against these very claims. He knows exactly which waiver clauses in City of Troy are enforceable and which ones are full of holes. He speaks Spanish natively and represents our clients directly—sin intérpretes.
We know the major Level 1 pediatric trauma center serving the City of Troy region, such as McLane Children’s Baylor Scott & White in Temple, where City of Troy families are often routed after a catastrophic impact. We know the I-35 corridor that connects City of Troy to the high-density trampoline park markets in Temple and Waco. Most importantly, we know that while the park manager in City of Troy might tell you “you signed a waiver,” the law in Texas says otherwise. A piece of paper does not grant a corporation the right to be grossly negligent with your child’s life.
The Architecture of Negligence: Why Trampoline Injuries Aren’t Accidents
In our 25+ years of experience, we have learned that every shattered limb or spinal compression has a name attached to the business decision that caused it. Every double-bounce that launches a sixty-pound child with four times the force of a normal jump happens because a park chose to staff their courts below the standards established by the industry itself.
Commercial trampoline parks in and around City of Troy operate under ASTM F2970, a safety standard that the industry actually wrote for itself to create a minimum floor for care. When a park violates these rules—when court-monitor-to-jumper ratios collapse on a Saturday afternoon, or when age groups are mixed during a birthday party—they aren’t just being “careless.” They are choosing to operate below the safety bar their own peers set.
Furthermore, while ASTM F2970-22 is the voluntary standard in America, we cite EN ISO 23659:2022 to show a jury what real accountability looks like. That is the mandatory international standard across Europe. Here in the United States, and specifically in City of Troy, parks like Sky Zone, Urban Air, and Altitude are allowed to self-regulate. When they fail, we are the ones who hold them to the standard they claim to follow.
The AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics) has issued policy statements since 1999 advising against recreational trampoline use. Manufacturers like Jumpking, Skywalker, and Bouncepro know this. They sell the products anyway, often with a “safety net” that provides a false sense of security while doing nothing to prevent the 75% of injuries that happen right on the trampoline bed.
If you are dealing with a pediatric femur fracture, a Salter-Harris growth plate injury, or a traumatic brain injury in City of Troy, the insurance adjuster is already working. They are trained to point at the waiver and close your file. Our job is to reopen it and show them that under Texas law, particularly the Dresser v. Page Petroleum fair-notice doctrine and the Munoz v. II Jaz rule, that waiver is often noise, not a wall.
Commercial Park Liability: Piercing the Five-Layer Stack
When we say we sue a chain like Sky Zone or Urban Air, we aren’t chasing a single company. We are dismantling a five-layer corporate structure designed to hide the money from families in City of Troy. The entity operating the local park is usually a single-location LLC that is undercapitalized by design. They carry a $1 million primary policy that rarely covers the lifetime cost of a catastrophic injury.
We go upstream. We identify the franchisee, then the franchisor (such as Sky Zone Franchising LLC or UATP Management), then the corporate parent (Sky Zone, Inc., formerly known as CircusTrix LLC; or Unleashed Brands), and finally the private equity sponsor. Palladium Equity Partners has backed Sky Zone since 2018; Seidler Equity Partners acquired Urban Air’s parent in 2023. These multi-billion dollar conglomerates make the decisions to cut staffing levels and defer maintenance. We make them pay for those decisions.
One of our attorneys, Lupe Peña, used to write the very legal scripts these carriers use. He knows that the “policy limit is $1 million” line is a shell game. Above that limit is an umbrella policy. Above the umbrella is an excess layer. The franchisor’s additional-insured status adds another tower of coverage. We find every layer of insurance available to your family in City of Troy.
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.” We take the difficult cases that other firms decline because we have the federal court experience and the technical mastery to win.
The Evidence Clock: Why the First 48 Hours Determine Your Case
If your child was injured at a facility like the Xtreme Jump in Temple or an Urban Air serving City of Troy, the evidence is already evaporating. Trampoline park surveillance DVRs are typically set to overwrite in as little as 7 to 30 days. Incident reports are frequently “revised” on park computer systems within 48 hours of the injury. Waiver kiosk databases can purge version history on a 72-hour rolling cycle.
Our firm is built for speed. Within 24 hours of being retained by a family in City of Troy, we send a comprehensive spoliation letter via certified mail. This legally freezes the evidence. We demand the native DVR footage, the time-clock records for every attendant on duty, and the metadata for the original incident report. We don’t just want the video they choose to show you; we want the access logs that show who viewed or exported the footage before it was “lost.”
We retain expert biomechanical engineers to reconstruct the energy transfer of a double-bounce and pediatric orthopedic surgeons to explain why a Salter-Harris Type II fracture at age nine means a decade of corrective monitoring. If the park tells us the camera “missed” the incident, we deploy digital forensic experts using tools like Cellebrite or Magnet AXIOM to interrogate their servers. In the Georgia case of Mathew Knight, a jury awarded $3.5 million after the defense video “glitched” on four different cameras at the exact moment of the injury. We know how to turn a “glitch” into an adverse inference instruction that wins your case.
Texas Law: The Shield for City of Troy Families
Texas law is nuanced, but it is not as park-friendly as the adjusters want you to believe. For families in City of Troy, there are four key legal pillars that support your claim:
- The Munoz Rule: Under Munoz v. II Jaz Inc., a parent in Texas generally cannot sign away a minor child’s personal injury claim in advance. Even if you signed the kiosk waiver, your child’s right to recover survives.
- The Dresser Doctrine: Texas requires waivers to be conspicuous and express. If the word “negligence” wasn’t bolded and set apart in a way that would attract a reasonable person’s attention, the waiver may be void on arrival.
- Gross Negligence Carve-Out: No waiver in Texas can release a company from gross negligence. If the park knew a mat was torn—like in the $11.485 million Cosmic Jump verdict—and let your child jump anyway, the waiver disappears and punitive damages become possible.
- Bilingual Formation (Delfingen): If your family’s primary language is Spanish and the park presented you with an English-only iPad waiver under pressure, Delfingen US-Texas v. Valenzuela provides the roadmap to invalidate that contract based on a failure of formation.
We understand the specific jury tendencies of Bell County. Whether we are filing in local courts or pursuing a chain in their Tarrant County or Harris County headquarters, we bring a level of preparation that signals to the defense that we are ready for trial from day one. Preparation pressure is the only language insurance carriers truly speak.
Catastrophic Pediatric Injuries: Measuring a Lifetime of Loss
A trampoline injury to a child in City of Troy is a biomechanical event that adult bodies simply don’t experience. Pediatric bone is more pliable, but the growth plates fail under loads that adult bones would resist. A fracture that an ER doctor calls a “broken leg” is often a Salter-Harris injury that will require annual monitoring through skeletal maturity.
We build “Life-Care Plans” with certified planners and pediatric specialists. We don’t just look at the hospital bill from Temple; we calculate the next 70 years of cost. This includes future corrective osteotomies, lifetime physical therapy, specialized educational accommodations for TBI victims, and the measurable loss of future earning capacity. A catastrophic cervical injury at age eight generates a damages math that anchors in the $10M–$25M range nationally. We don’t settle for the bills in the mailbox; we fight for the security your child will need at age 40.
We also address the psychological “invisible” injuries. PTSD in children after a trampoline accident presents as night terrors, school avoidance, and regression. We ensure these damages are documented and compensated, so your family can access the specialized counseling required for a full recovery.
Frequently Asked Questions for City of Troy Parents
Can I sue if I signed the waiver at the trampoline park kiosk?
Yes. In City of Troy and across Texas, waivers are not absolute. As we discussed, parents often cannot legally waive a minor child’s right to sue for personal injuries (Munoz v. II Jaz). Furthermore, if the park was grossly negligent—such as ignoring ASTM attendant ratios during a peak window or failing to repair known equipment defects—the waiver is generally unenforceable for that conduct.
Should I let my child go to a birthday party at a trampoline park?
We recommend designated “rail parents” for any group event. While no park is risk-free, following a strict “one person per bed” rule and skipping high-risk attractions like foam pits can reduce exposure. However, if an injury occurs, remember that if a party host signed a master agreement for the group but you never signed for your own child, the park may have no waiver defense against you at all.
Why did the staff tell me not to call 911 when my child was hurt?
This is a documented industry pattern known as the “Don’t Call 911” protocol. Multiple reports, including a Tripadvisor review for an Urban Air in Southlake, TX, allege that management instructs staff to downplay injuries and avoid calling EMS. This is often done to prevent a public record of the incident and to allow surveillance to overwrite before a lawyer is involved. If your child is seriously hurt, you make the call yourself.
How long do I have to do something—is there a deadline?
In Texas, the statute of limitations for personal injury is two years. For minors, the clock is often “tolled” until they turn 18, giving them until age 20 to file. However, waiting is a catastrophic mistake for your evidence. The video is gone in weeks. The attendants quit or transfer. You should call a lawyer the week of the injury to preserve the case, regardless of when you decide to file.
What if we didn’t actually sign—my friend’s parent signed for my kid?
Under Texas Family Code § 153.073, only a parent or a court-appointed conservator has the authority to sign a legal waiver for a minor. If a grandparent, aunt, or a friend’s parent signed the waiver at a party in City of Troy, that signature is legally ineffective as to your child. The waiver fails on signer authority before we even reach other arguments.
How much does a trampoline park lawyer cost?
At Attorney911, we work on a contingency fee basis. This means you pay nothing upfront and zero unless we win. We advance every expense—the biomechanical engineers, the life-care planners, and the ASTM experts. Your child’s recovery fund stays intact while we handle the financial weight of the litigation.
Why City of Troy Families Choose the Manginello Law Firm
We represent families. We represent children. We represent the parent who stayed up all night in a hospital chair searching for answers. We bring 25 years of federal court experience and a willingness to litigate against the private equity firms that treat your child’s safety as a line item on a spreadsheet.
As Kati Hill told ABC News, “It’s been a nightmare.” Our goal is to end that nightmare by bringing accountability to the people who caused it. We have the “Moat”—proprietary 50-state research, an attorney who knows the defense script by heart, and an active $10M rhabdomyolysis case that anchors our medical expertise.
What happened to your child wasn’t random. It was the predictable output of a system designed to maximize jumpers per hour while ignoring a quarter century of pediatric medical warnings. We were built for exactly this fight.
Case-Build: Our 10-Step Investigation Protocol
When you retain us, we don’t just send a letter. We deploy a system:
- 24-Hour Spoliation Letter: Certified demand to the park, franchisor, and parent company to freeze video and digital records.
- 48-Hour PI Deployment: We send investigators to the City of Troy area park to photograph currently active hazards and identify former employees.
- Digital Forensics: We capture the Wayback Machine version of the waiver and website as it existed on the day of your injury.
- Corporate Archeology: We trace the layers from the local LLC up to the private equity sponsor to find the deep pockets.
- Agency Subpoenas: We pull the Texas Department of Insurance inspection records for any Class B inflatables at the site.
- Medical Chronology: Our specialists organize every trauma bay record to neutralize the “pre-existing condition” defense.
- Expert Retention: We lock in the schedules of the nation’s top biomechanists and pediatric orthopedic specialists.
- Waiver Analysis: Lupe Peña runs the waiver through our 5-vector attack playbook (Dresser, Munoz, Delfingen, and more).
- Loss-Run Discovery: We subpoena the 5-year insurance claim history of the park to prove they were on notice of the hazard.
- Trial Readiness: We prepare the “Day in the Life” video and economic projections to ensure the insurer treats your case with respect.
Hablamos Español: Lupe Peña Representa a su Familia
Muchas de las víctimas de lesiones en parques de trampolines en Texas son niños de familias hispanohablantes. El Bufete Manginello es único porque nuestra abogada asociada, Lupe Peña, es hispanohablante nativa. Ella no solo traduce; ella entiende la cultura y los derechos de nuestras familias. Antes de estar con nosotros, ella defendía a estas corporaciones. Ahora, ella usa ese conocimiento para usted.
Si usted firmó un documento en inglés y su idioma principal es el español, la doctrina Delfingen US-Texas v. Valenzuela puede invalidar esa renuncia. Usted merece un abogado que hable su idioma directamente, sin intérpretes, y que pelee por su hijo con la misma pasión que usted. Llame al 1-888-ATTY-911 y pida hablar con Lupe.
Final Word: The Clock is Running
Your child’s case is decided by what gets preserved this week. The park has lawyers. The franchisor has lawyers. The corporate parent has lawyers. The private equity sponsor has lawyers. So do we.
Call 1-888-ATTY-911. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Hablamos Español. No fee unless we win. Our spoliation letter goes out within 24 hours of your retention. The case starts today.
