Burn Injury

A Sarasota burn injury can lead to a life of severe pain, lifestyle restrictions, and financial insecurity.

Burn injury is often devastating, and may be caused by heat, cold, electricity, chemicals, light, radiation, or friction.

Whether at home or at work, a manufacturer which creates a dangerous and defective product, or a property owner that does not reasonably maintain the property which results in a fire, are examples of parties which can be held accountable for injuries sustained.

Flammable Products

The consumer products most commonly associated with fires include:

Chemicals At Home or the Workplace

Many chemicals that can cause moderate to severe chemical burns are strong acids or bases. Chemical burns are usually caused by caustic chemical compounds, such as sodium hydroxide, silver nitrate, and more serious compounds (such as sulfuric acid and Nitric acid). Hydrofluoric acid can cause damage down to the bone and its burns are sometimes not immediately evident. Chlorine can also cause internal and external burns.

If you have suffered chemical burn injuries as the result of someone else’s negligence, then you should contact an attorney to consider your legal options.

Electrical Burns

Electrical burn injuries generally caused by an electric shock, such as exposure to an active overhead power line, an active electrical wire, arcing from electrical power sources such as generators or transformers. While the external burns vary and can range from minor to catastrophic, often the internal injuries are far worse – the external signs of injury may pale in comparison to the extensive internal injuries. Such injuries may lead to heart irregularities, cardiac arrest, and unexpected falls with resultant fractures.

If you have suffered electrical burn injuries as the result of someone else’s negligence, then you should contact an attorney to consider your legal options.

Radiation burns

Radiation burn injuries can be caused by protracted and overexposure to UV light (as from the sun), tanning booths, radiation therapy (as patients who are undergoing cancer therapy), sun lamps, and X-rays.

A common burn associated with radiation is sun exposure, specifically two wavelengths of light UVA, and UVB, the latter being the more dangerous of the two. Tanning booths emit these same wavelengths and can cause similar damage to the skin such as irritation, redness, swelling, and inflammation. More severe cases of sun burn result in what is known as “sun poisoning.”

Scalding

Scalding is caused by super-heated liquid, including water, and gases. They most commonly occur in the home from exposure to high temperature tap water. Steam is a common gas that causes scalds. Broken steam or gas pipes, defective water coolers with hot water taps, and defective water boilers (e.. heat regulator not working) and plumbing defects can result in scalding burns.

More damage can be caused if hot liquids enter an orifice. Deaths have occurred where steam pipes burst, not only from the burns, but also from the exploding force.

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Your personal injury lawyer at the Harris Law Firm will personally handle your case from our first meeting to our final results. The case has to be quickly and efficiently investigated and evaluated, and promptly moved toward resolution, whether mediation, settlement, or trial. This is what we do.

Experts to assess and evaluate fault – liability – may be critical. Additionally, the appropriate experts should be considered, including medical experts, vocational rehabilitation expert, life care planner expert, and economist.

If the cause of your burn injury, the your loved one’s burn injury, was due to a condition on a property or a product, a workplace condition, or someone else’s carelessness, then you should act quickly to protect your contact us for a free legal consultation.

We promptly and aggressively fight for our clients.  Because we handle a limited number clients at any one time, we are able focus time, energy, and effort to your burn injury claim.

We seek to recover at the full range of damages and human losses that must be fixed or helped, which represents full justice in our civil justice system, including all applicable damages:

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Burn victims injured by the negligence of others, whether product manufacturer or property owner, have several medical hurdles to overcome. The expenses for serious burn injury are among the highest of any type of injury – and continue over the course of a lifetime.  There are additional resources available at the Burn-Injury-Law blog.

Who is going to pay for experimental medical interventions? Who is going to pay for cutting-edge technology? Not an insurance company (at least not voluntarily). Not the government. The principle does matter.

You will need significant financial resources to ensure you have access to every medical intervention and treatment you’ll need for the rest of your life.

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