Serious burns are among the most painful and potentially life-altering injuries a person can experience, often leaving deep physical and emotional scars. When these devastating injuries result from someone else’s actions, it adds to the trauma experienced by the injury victim.
If you or a close family member suffered serious burns caused by another party’s negligence, you don’t have to be left with the economic consequences as well as the physical ones. These consequences are your damages in a burn injury claim against the at-fault party. Contact the personal injury attorneys in Everett at Wells Trumbull so we can make your fight our own.
Why You Should Hire Wells Trumbull After Burn Injuries In Everett
The dedicated legal advocates at Wells Trumbull put our experience, knowledge, and results behind every client’s case. Our firm’s advantages include:
- A free evaluation of your case and no fees charged to you unless and until we settle or win your claim
- A strategy that includes spending time to witness the full impact of the burn injury on your life and your family to make a more compelling case
- The dedicated attention of an Everett burn injury attorney plus the resources and combined skills of an entire legal team all fighting for your compensation
Our law firm has a respected name and a history of exceptional results including a recent $5 million recovery for a client’s personal injury case.
What Causes Burn Injury Claims In Everett?
When another person or business acts with carelessness, recklessness, or intentional wrongdoing, they are responsible for any harm their actions cause others under Washington’s fault-based injury laws and comparison negligence insurance system. Common causes of burn injury cases in Washington’s civil courts include the following:
- Negligent building maintenance
- Lack of adequate safety measures such as smoke detectors, fire extinguishers, and fire escapes
- Electrical wiring defects
- Workplace injuries
- Car accidents
- Truck accidents
- Defective product injuries
- Hot liquid scalds
- Electrical burns
- Chemical exposures
- Explosions
Burns are not only painful and disfiguring, but they can also leave a victim with adverse impacts on their ability to earn at the same time they experience exorbitant medical expenses.
The extent of the economic and non-economic damages experienced by burn injury victims in Washington depends on the severity of the burns and the amount of body surface injured. Medical providers classify burns in the following way:
- First-degree burns affect only the outer layer of the injury victim’s skin
- Second-degree burn injuries penetrate the dermis layer of the skin
- Third-degree burns destroy all skin layers
- Fourth-degree burns affect the underlying muscles, tendons, and bones
Often, burn injury victims experience a range of burns at different degrees on various parts of their bodies.
Medical treatment for burns is expensive as well as painful and prolonged. Many burn victims face years of reconstructive surgery and physical and occupational therapies. Damages recovered in burn injury claims include compensation for past and future medical expenses, lost earnings, and compensation for non-economic damages like disfigurement, scarring, and diminished quality of life.
Call the Burn Injury Attorneys in Everett Who Are Ready to Help
No one can erase the harm and pain caused by serious burn injuries, but a successful claim can open the door to the best possible medical treatment and relieve financial hardship. Contact Wells Trumbull to speak to a burn injury lawyer about your case so we can begin prompt, assertive action to recover the compensation you deserve.