How Much Compensation Can You Get for a Burn Injury?

A burn injury may cause serious medical complications, physical pain, and emotional suffering, all leading to significantly high losses. How much compensation can you get for a burn injury if someone else hurt you? 

The value of a burn injury can vary widely depending on the type, severity, and outcome, so talk to a Providence personal injury lawyer today.

Factors that Contribute to the Value of Your Burn Injury

The value of a burn injury is dependent on numerous factors related to the injury, pain, and ability to recover. Those who have more significant and long-lasting injuries are likely to receive a higher level of compensation than those with mild injuries and losses. Some of the  most significant factors that play a role in what you can expect to receive include:

• Loss of life
• The extensiveness of medical losses
• Serious debilitating injuries that impact mobility
• Disfigurement
• Infections and complications from injuries
• Ability to return to work
• Reconstructive surgeries and complications to health
• Impact on quality of life, including your ability to do things you enjoy
• Mental health complications, including the onset of conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder

The goal of personal injury compensation is to help a person whole again, but in the case of burn injuries, this is often very hard to do. Even in the most ideal situation, a person is likely to experience ongoing chronic nerve damage, ongoing disfigurement, and impact on quality of life. Without the legal guidance of a lawyer with experience fighting for burn injury losses, you may not recover all of the losses owed to you.

Burn Injuries Often Cause Catastrophic Injuries and Losses

As noted by the Mayo Clinic’s Burns – Diagnosis and treatment, the complications that come from burns are extensive, even in mild to moderate burn cases. A person who has deep wounds, widespread burns, or complications due to the healing process may experience ongoing losses related to their health, quality of life, pain, and emotional well-being. Consider some of the most significant complications that result from serious burns and high burn injury compensation claims.

• Infection: A high risk of infection. Without fast enough treatment, a person may develop sepsis, a highly risky and often fatal condition.
• Internal organ damage: Irregular heartbeats, changes to breathing quality and ability, bone and joint problems, and even the development of complications to the digestive system are possible.
• Cancer: Skin cancer may be more likely in a person who suffers a serious burn than in those who do not.
• Pain: Due to the damage to nerve endings, many people will experience chronic pain that may be debilitating.
• Depression: It is very common for a person with serious burn injuries to develop mental health complications. This can include post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and other forms of anxiety.
• Disfigurement: Scarring, change of skin color, damage to soft tissues, and limb or digit loss are not uncommon.

Depending on the location of the burn as well as the type and severity, it is possible you may spend months trying to recover from this condition. For victims of serious burns, life may not be the same. You should receive compensation for any losses you have directly related to these injuries, including future injuries, so read our frequently asked questions about personal injury cases to learn more.

Considering Future Losses Due to Burn Injuries

Compensation for burn injuries can be more complicated than what happens immediately after the accident. Many victims face ongoing complications, including the need for repeated surgical procedures, reconstructive procedures, rehabilitation, and chronic pain. All of these costs add up and may lead to long-term impacts on quality of life, an inability to work, and even early death.

How Our Burn Injury Attorney Calculates Your Burn Injury Compensation

To determine the losses you have in a burn injury, our highly skilled legal team goes to work to calculate all of the ways in which this accident is impacting you physically, emotionally, and financially. To better understand the extensiveness of your injuries and losses, we work with a team of professionals who can shed light on what the future may bring. Some of the ways we determine value could include:

• Speaking to burn experts and specialists to better understand short- and long-term outcomes in your case, including implications for your health and well-being.
• Accident reconstruction specialists can shed light on the heinous and preventable acts a person engaged in to put you in this situation.
• Employers can provide insight into whether you may be able to return to work or if you will no longer be able to do the type of work you did before the accident.
• Family and friends can provide insight into changes in your mental health and quality of life, testifying about the true losses to your daily life they see in you.
• Mental health professionals can provide insight into the mental health disorders you have due to the onset of this accident, including prolonged risk for depression.
• Previous cases like yours can help to provide more insight into the value of the losses you have, including the long-term consequences that others suffered.
• Your statements and details about what happened, why, and how it impacts your life are always valuable components of this claims process.

We work hard to calculate burn injury compensation claims based on all of these factors because no two cases are the same. Yet, you deserve exceptional legal support as you recover from the accident and injuries someone else caused to you. With our experience holding those who hurt our clients accountable, you can expect us to fight for you to receive fair compensation for burn injury claims, so learn more about our firm today.

Schedule a Free Consultation to Discuss Your Compensation for Burn Injury Claims

There is no exact answer to how much burn injury compensation you may be owed because every case is very different. As your attorney and trusted legal team at Gemma Law Associates, we take pride in learning everything about your case and the complications you have so we can fight for full recovery of your losses. 

Contact us now to learn more about your right to compensation.