Few injuries are as devastating as burns. Burn injuries combine all of the worst aspects of injuries, including severe pain, scarring, disfigurement, and sometimes significant disability. Burns have lifelong effects on injury victims and their entire families. When serious burns were preventable if only someone else had taken reasonable care, it’s particularly traumatic to injury victims who have to live with the damages. While nothing can erase the injury, an experienced burn injury attorney in Marysville can help you recover compensation for your damages through a claim demanding financial accountability. Call Wells Trumbull today so we can evaluate your case and take action.
Why You Should Choose the Marysville Burn Injury Lawyers at Wells Trumbull
The Marysville personal injury attorneys at Wells Trumbull have a deep commitment to advocating for injury victims when they suffer harm due to someone else’s careless, reckless, or wrongful actions. We offer the following advantages to your burn injury case:
- A free case consultation and no fees until after you receive your compensation
- An attorney dedicated to your case with the skills, knowledge, and resources of an entire legal team behind your claim
- A results-oriented approach by an attorney who spends time getting to know you to understand the impact of the burn injury on you and your family so we can better convey the depth of your damages to the appropriate insurance company
We put a strong voice behind every client’s claim through our history of notable case results, including a recent $2.1 million recovery for a client in a premises liability case.
Understanding the Impacts of Burn Injuries
Doctors measure the severity of burns by the depth of the injury through the skin layers and into the fat, muscle, and bone beneath. Burn injuries range from mild first-degree burns to third-degree burns that burn through all of the skin layers. Fourth-degree burns cause damage to the muscles and bones.
Burn injuries are excruciatingly painful. Many burn injury victims in Marysville and elsewhere suffer a range of burns at different levels when they experience burns from fires, scalds, caustic chemicals, or explosions.
Depending on the severity of the burns, a burn injury victim may experience temporary or permanent effects on all aspects of their life.
All personal injury cases in Washington center around the legal duty of care to take all reasonable measures to avoid causing injury to others. This duty applies to drivers, property owners, business owners, and individuals. When a person or business breaches this duty of care, and the result is injury to others—such as burn injuries—the at-fault party is responsible for any damages caused by their actions or negligence. Common liable parties in Marysville burn injury claims include the following:
- Drivers
- Apartment building owners
- Property owners
- Employers or subcontractors
- Construction companies
- Service providers such as utility companies
- The manufacturer of defective products
Depending on how the burns occurred, you could recover compensation from the liable party’s auto insurance, property liability insurance, workers’ compensation, or through a lawsuit with the help of an accident lawyer in Marysville.
What Damages Can I Recover In a Marysville Burn Injury Claim?
Even relatively mild, fully recoverable burn injuries cause pain, trauma, and medical expenses. More serious burns can cause lifelong disability and disfigurement. Common damages recovered in successful Washington burn injury claims include:
- Reimbursement for medical expenses
- Compensation for future medical expenses
- Lost wages
- Future earning loss
- Compensation for pain and suffering
- Compensation for scarring or disfigurement, loss of limb, loss of vision, PTSD, anxiety, depression, or diminished quality of life depending on the unique circumstances of the case
If a loved one died due to burn injuries, close family members could recover compensation in a Washington wrongful death claim.
Call the Marysville Burn Injury Lawyers at Wells Trumbull
You and your family shouldn’t have to take on a challenging legal claim against a defendant and their insurance company while also trying to recover from serious burn injuries. Instead, contact an experienced attorneys at Wells Trumbull so we can navigate your claim with the maximum chances of favorable results while you focus on your physical and emotional healing.