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Burn injuries can be life-altering or even fatal. Severe burn victims often face painful and expensive ongoing medical treatments and permanent injuries and scarring. If you or your loved one suffered a burn in an accident caused by another party’s negligence, you deserve compensation.
A Bessemer City personal injury lawyer from our team at Farmer & Morris Law, PLLC can help you seek financial compensation. Your Bessemer City burn injury attorney will handle every detail of your case so you can focus on healing and getting your life back on track. Contact us today to schedule a free, no-obligation consultation.
We Fight for Burn Injury Victims
According to the Cleveland Clinic, nearly 500,000 Americans seek emergency medical treatment for burn injuries every year. While first and second-degree burns usually heal with minimal treatment, third-degree burns can result in permanent scarring, nerve damage, and life-threatening side effects.
If you or your loved one sustained a burn injury due to someone else’s careless, reckless, or wrongful actions, our Bessemer City burn injury attorneys can pursue compensation for your financial losses and monetary awards for your pain and suffering. We assist with burn injury claims arising from the following and more:
- Car accidents
- Motorcycle accidents
- Truck accidents
- Pedestrian accidents
- Bicycle accidents
- Bus accidents
- Construction accidents
- Residential or commercial fires
- Gas or oil tank explosions
- Chemical burns
- Defective products
Our Personal Injury Attorneys Will Seek Full and Fair Burn Injury Compensation
Recovering from a second or third-degree burn injury can take time, especially if the burns cover a large portion of your body. When seeking compensation, you want to ensure you secure enough to pay for your current and future medical treatments and ongoing injury-related expenses.
Your Bessemer City burn injury accident lawyer can review your claim, identify your economic and non-economic damages, and establish your right to financial awards using bills, receipts, pay stubs, estimates, and more.
In general, we can pursue the following losses:
- Medical expenses, including ambulance transportation, emergency department treatment, surgeries, skin grafts and cosmetic procedures, specialized burn care, physical therapy, and long-term nursing
- Lost wages, including lost income and benefits, lost future wages, and lost earning capacity
- Property damage and other miscellaneous expenses, including household services and medically necessary home and vehicle modifications
- Pain and suffering, including monetary awards for scarring, disfigurement, chronic pain, loss of mobility, emotional distress, mental anguish, and diminished quality of life
We Assist the Families of Injured Children and Fatally Injured Loved Ones
Sadly, children, disabled individuals, and older adults are especially vulnerable to burn injuries. According to the American Burn Association, burns were the fifth-leading cause of injury death in children ages 1-4, the third-leading cause for ages 5-9, and the eighth-leading cause for those age 65 and older in 2015.
Our Bessemer City burn injury lawyers can represent parents or guardians of minor burn victims or assist families that are coping with the wrongful death of a loved one. We will handle your case with respect, compassion, and dignity. Contact Farmer & Morris Law, PLLC today to learn more.
Our Burn Injury Lawyers Focus on Client Service
Our firm’s commitment to providing excellent and responsive legal services has earned us the honor of being voted “The Best of Rutherford County” by the Daily Courier Readers’ Poll from 2011-2023. Let us focus on your case so you can focus on your recovery or caring for your injured loved one.
We Will Establish Liability for Your Burn Injuries
To win compensation, you must establish that another party’s negligent actions caused your burn injuries. A personal injury attorney with our firm can do this using the following four elements of negligence:
- Duty of care. We will prove the liable party was legally obligated to keep you safe. For example, property owners have a duty to maintain safe premises.
- Breach of duty. We will show that the at-fault party acted in a way that caused you harm (or failed to take actions to protect your safety). We will do this using evidence, including eyewitness testimony, police reports, medical records, and surveillance video.
- Causation. We will demonstrate that the liable party’s actions directly caused your burn injury.
- Damages. We will gather evidence to prove your burn injury led to financial losses and pain and suffering.
We Will Handle All the Details of Your Burn Injury Case
The last things you and your family should worry about are paperwork, deadlines, and other case-related red tape. Your Bessemer City burn lawyer will do the following so you don’t have to:
- Investigate the accident and collect evidence
- Calculate your economic and non-economic damages
- File your insurance claim or lawsuit
- Handle all communication with the liable party’s insurer and legal representation on your behalf
- Keep you informed with regular updates and access to our 24/7 helpline
- Take action in civil court if necessary
We Will Be Your Voice
Hiring a personal injury lawyer can tell the insurance companies and opposing counsel that you mean business. Our burn injury attorneys serving Bessemer City will fight for fair compensation to cover all your losses. In addition, we will review your settlement offers, reject lowball payments, and stand up to bad-faith insurance tactics.
What Is the Burn Injury Lawsuit Statute of Limitations in North Carolina?
You have a limited time to pursue burn injury compensation in North Carolina. According to N.C. Gen. Stat. §1-52, you have three years to sue for personal injury. You have two years to sue for wrongful death under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-5.
If you do not take action within the statute of limitations, the court will likely refuse your case. Missing the deadline will also significantly reduce your insurance bargaining power.
Contact Farmer & Morris Law, PLLC, About Your Burn Injury Case
At Farmer & Morris Law, PLLC, our law firm has represented over 10,000 clients throughout the Carolinas. If someone else’s negligent actions hurt you or your loved one, we have the knowledge and case experience to fight for you.
Contact us today to schedule a free consultation and learn more about our services. We take cases on a contingency fee basis, so working with us costs nothing upfront or out of pocket. Connect with a Bessemer City burn injury lawyer near you today!
