Burn Accident Attorney
Burn Accident Attorney Overview
Victims of fires and explosions are often fortunate if they do not have serious and permanent injuries like severe burns and disfigurement. Burn accidents and injuries are immensely painful. In some cases, they require significant surgical procedures like skin grafts, extensive hospitalization and rehabilitation.
These incidents nearly always result in catastrophic injuries for those involved, and the consequences are not limited to physical injuries. In addition, these events usually cause intense psychological trauma coupled with enormous medical expenses over a lifetime. A knowledgeable burn accident attorney will know precisely how to navigate these issues in any burn injury case.
Burn Accident Injuries
Burns themselves fall into four classifications, from least to most severe:
- First-Degree: These are minor and require no or minimal medical treatment. If you ever touched a hot pan on the stove by mistake and pulled your hand away, this is the type of burn you likely received. These burns manifest in redness and minor pain but heal within days or up to a week.
- Second-Degree: These burns infiltrate the top two layers of skin tissue and are more severe. In addition to redness and swelling, the skin can also blister. Second-degree burns require medical treatment, especially if they progress to infection.
- Third-Degree: This type of burn penetrates deep below the first layers of skin and can go all the way down through nerve and to the bone. Third-degree burns can completely destroy tissue permanently, in addition to loss of sensation and significant disfigurement. These are medical emergencies requiring immediate treatment and often considerable follow-up care thereafter.
- Fourth-Degree: These are the most severe as they destroy everything from the skin up to and including bone. Fourth degree burns are life threatening.
Proving Fault
You will have to identify the person or entity responsible for the underlying trauma to pursue a burn accident claim. Whether it resulted from a car accident, a chemical exposure, or a defective product, a victim must establish that another party owed and breached a duty to the victim in order to recover compensation. These cases are extremely fact specific and require extensive diligence in every instance. As such, you should not delay in seeking representation if you suspect that your injuries were caused by another party.
damages & Summary
Burn injury accident victims are entitled to the same compensation and damages as other personal injuries. Such damages include medical expenses in the past and future, lost wages, pain and suffering. The issue with burn cases is the economic damages resulting from the extensive need for medical treatment gets very expensive very quickly. Therefore, you will want to speak to a knowledgeable burn injury lawyer as soon as possible to identify your options for treatment as well as for compensation.
The team at Santana Injury Law can get to work today on your claim and get you the most compensation for your injuries. Call now for a free consultation with an experienced burn accident attorney.
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