Family sues Franklin Sports after badminton racket shaft fatally pierces 6-year-old's skull

6-year-old Lucy Morgan died from a skull piercing injury; her three siblings and parents witnessed or heard the incident and suffered severe emotional distress.

In the summer of 2024, a family's ordinary afternoon of play on a Maine vacation became an irreversible tragedy when a badminton racket's metal shaft separated and struck six-year-old Lucy Morgan in the head, killing her four days later. Her family, led by her father — a New Jersey pastor — now brings a lawsuit against Franklin Sports, the racket's manufacturer, alleging that a known design flaw and the absence of even the simplest safeguard transformed a child's toy into something fatal. The case asks not only what was owed to Lucy, but what responsibility manufacturers carry when they are aw

Family sues Franklin Sports after badminton racket shaft fatally pierces 6-year-old's skull

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