Gaffney Burn Injury Lawyer

Your body’s largest organ is your skin, a waterproof covering that protects you from bacteria and regulates your temperature. Serious burns compromise the epidermis, the skin’s top layer, and may penetrate the sub-layers, including your muscles and bones. This causes tissue destruction and exposes you to infectious germs. Severe burn injuries can mean many years—possibly a lifetime—of medical care, surgeries, and reconstruction, along with possible scarring and disfigurement.

If you were burned due to someone else’s negligence, they have a legal and moral obligation to compensate you. This restitution should cover lost wages and the cost of medical care, along with compensation for your physical and emotional pain and trauma. A Gaffney burn injury lawyer from Holland & Usry is here for you when you’re ready to explore your legal options. Call us now for a FREE case review with our catastrophic injury attorney.

What Are the Most Common Causes of Burn Injuries?

Generally, humans instinctively recoil from heat, but when there is no escape from the source of the burn, the skin is destroyed and doesn’t regenerate. The Centers for Disease Control reports that burn injuries cost patients about $7.5 billion each year in the U.S. Burn injuries can be caused by:

• Faulty wiring due to substandard electrical work
• Motor vehicle accidents in which the vehicle catches fire
• Chemical spills
• Commercial building fires with absent fire extinguishers on the premises
• Overcrowded entertainment venues where the doors and fire exits are inaccessible when a fire breaks out
• Carelessness in a home kitchen

If you incurred burn injuries in a Gaffney accident, a Holland & Usry attorney will take the time to build a case to support your claim and determine from your medical evaluation how much compensation you will need to support you financially long-term and restore your peace of mind. Well, make sure you know you’re cared for the minute you walk through the doors for your FREE case evaluation.

When Negligence Causes Burn Injuries

If the at-fault party is insured, such as in a car accident, your attorney will weigh the options to negotiate a settlement. If a settlement offer is inadequate to cover your losses, we can file a civil lawsuit based on negligence. Your lawyer must prove the four elements of negligence:

• Duty of care, meaning a legal obligation to look out for your safety
• Breach of duty, meaning the at-fault party failed to look out for your safety
• Causation, meaning the failure caused you harm and loss
• Damages, meaning the amount of the harm and loss

People have a duty to act with care. When they act unreasonably, they have breached their duty. If the breach causes an accident that is foreseeable under the circumstances and results in injury, the elements of negligence are met. A Gaffney attorney will reconstruct your accident and identify the elements of negligence to hold the person responsible for your burn damage accountable.

Some Damages Have a Price Tag and Some are Harder to Figure

Judges and juries award compensation as economic or non-economic. Your economic damages are those with a price tag attached, such as what you must pay for medical and rehabilitative care and the wages you lose when you cannot work. Non-economic damages are not automatically assigned a dollar value; juries assign a value to them, such as the physical pain you have to endure, the emotional trauma of knowing you will be scarred for life, and the loss of time spent with your family because you are hospitalized.

Our Gaffney burn accident lawyer knows you only have one chance to get the compensation you need for your burn injury. Let’s discuss it now during your FREE case evaluation.

Call a Gaffney Burn Injury Attorney for help

If someone else’s carelessness or negligence—including that of landowners and business owners—has caused you a serious burn injury, justice is served when that person is held accountable and made to pay for your pain and loss.

At Holland & Usry, we dedicate the time it takes to support you and fight for what is right, so you can regain your peace of mind. Our focus is on your needs. You can learn more by scheduling a FREE case review with a Gaffney burn injury lawyer now. Let’s talk.