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Minnesota Burn Injury Lawyers / Attorneys
Our experienced personal injury attorneys can help after a burn injury
One of the most painful injuries a person can experience is a burn injury. When a burn trauma occurs, nerve endings are damaged, causing intense feelings of pain. Every year millions of Americans sustain burn injuries. Thousands die from burn trauma and many burn victims require long-term hospitalization.
Burns are a leading cause of unintentional death in the United States, surpassed only by automobile crashes and falls.
Whatever the cause of your burn injury, you need protection
Burn injuries can be caused by chemicals, friction, electricity, radiation, and heat from fire or liquids. Chemical burns most commonly happen in workplaces and laboratories when skin makes contact with strong acids or bases or after a gas explosion. Curious children with sensitive skin are especially at risk of scalds from hot water and liquids, contact burns from fire and hot objects, and electrical burns from exploring electrical cords and outlets. Other common causes of burn injuries include:
- Boating accidents
- Construction accidents
- Wrongful death
- Chemical burns
- Building fires
- Gas explosions
- Other personal injury claims
Proper treatment for your burn injury is the top priority
Burns range in severity. The least severe, first degree burns, can happen from overexposure to the sun. More severe third degree burns remove the top layer of skin and damage the tissue underneath, almost always resulting in scarring and permanent hair loss. Fourth degree burns reach even deeper to damage muscle, tendon and ligament tissue and almost always result in the loss of life or limb.
The first 48 hours after a burn injury are crucial for burn victims. Medical professionals need to stabilize a burn patient’s fluid levels, prevent infection and try to manage pain before ever starting the painful process of cleaning and covering burn wounds. Most third-degree burns and fourth-degree burns will require surgeries to graft burn wounds with cadaver skin, animal skin or synthetic skin.
Contact a burn injury lawyer right away
Seeking the best possible medical treatment right away is the top priority for a burn victim. Burn victims need a strong system of support throughout their recovery, including a wide range of medical professionals, friends and family as well as a personal injury attorney who can help track medical expenses and preserve evidence after a burn injury.
Burns are one of the most painful, damaging and expensive catastrophic injuries to treat. If you or a loved one is the victim of a burn injury, you have the right to a fair settlement and compensation for your injuries.
You deserve compensation for your burn injury
Pain and suffering from a burn injury is extreme. In addition to the physical hurt when the burn wound happens, a burn victim endures excruciating treatments and a long-term recovery with extensive rehabilitation. Burn victims may also suffer disability, disfigurement, embarrassment, or emotional distress.
If someone else is at fault for your burn injury, you deserve compensation for your pain and suffering as well as your medical expenses, lost wages and other burdens. Get help from a personal injury law firm that will work hard and pursue a successful outcome for your case—call the burn injury lawyers at Sieben, Grose, Von Holtum & Carey.
Contact our Minnesota personal injury lawyers for help
Contact Sieben, Grose, Von Holtum and Carey 24 hours a day at 800-474-4487 (toll-free in MN) or 612-333-4500 for a free consultation. Our burn injury lawyers / attorneys will evaluate your personal injury case and help you get the justice you deserve.
If you’re in the hospital or at home recovering from a burn injury, let us come to you. Our Minneapolis, MN personal injury attorneys also have conveniently located law offices ready to serve you in Duluth, Fairfax and Lakeville while our Twin Cities Law office serves the metropolitan Minneapolis / St. Paul Minnesota area.
