Serious burn injuries can require a lifetime of medical care and treatment. When burns are the result of negligence or a work-related injury, you need a legal team to aggressively negotiate a strong settlement or convincingly present your case to a jury to recover full compensation for your current and future losses.
A Worcester burn injury lawyer from Pellegrini, Seeley, Ryan & Blakesley, P.C. is your best option for legal representation if you need to pursue a burn injury claim. We have recovered millions of dollars in damages for burn victims. Our catastrophic injury attorneys provide personal service and use extensive skills and experience to get our clients the largest available damages award.
Open flames are a common cause of burn injuries, but they are not the only cause. First-, second-, and third-degree burns can be the result of:
Your Worcester attorney could use the facts of your burn injury case to show the cause of your injuries. That cause could be the basis for a substantial workers’ compensation claim or a negligence damages award. A damages award is meant to reimburse your medical expenses and lost wages and to cover all the future costs you will incur for treatment of the physical and psychological harm that you are suffering.
Your path to recover compensation for a serious burn will depend, in part, on whether or not your injury happened while you were performing job-related tasks for your employer.
If you suffered an on-the-job burn injury, your employer’s workers’ compensation insurance will reimburse your present and future medical expenses and replace your lost wages. You will not need to show that your employer was negligent, but workers’ compensation will not give you damages for your pain and suffering or other non-economic losses. Although workers’ compensation precludes a negligence lawsuit against your employer, you may have a third-party negligence claim.
For example, you may have been burned by faulty equipment manufactured or supplied by someone other than your employer.
To recover negligence damages, the evidence of how you suffered a burn wound must show that the negligent party owed you a duty of care, that duty was breached, you were injured as a direct and proximate result of that breach, and the breach caused you to incur economic and non-economic losses. Unlike workers’ compensation awards, a personal injury award may include compensation for your pain and suffering, which can be substantial in cases of serious burns.
Your Worcester attorney could determine what type of claim to file after your burn wound and which parties to pursue to get the largest available damages award for your economic and non-economic losses.
You should seek immediate medical care for your injuries after a serious burn. Prompt medical care can reduce the risks of scarring and infections that burn victims frequently experience.
When your condition is stable, call Pellegrini, Seeley, Ryan & Blakesley, P.C. to speak with a Worcester burn injury lawyer about how you can recover maximum compensation for your injuries. Our skilled burn injury litigators could analyze your case and identify the parties that are liable for your losses, all at no cost to you. If you retain our services and we accept your case, we could aggressively negotiate the largest available damages settlement or take your case to a jury trial.
Let us help you obtain the full compensation that you will need to cover your current and future burn-related losses.
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