Whether from hot metal, an open flame, boiling water or steam, flammable clothing or caustic chemicals, suffering a serious burn can be extremely painful and impact the rest of your life. Even a relatively minor burn may be expensive to treat and take months to properly heal from, while more severe burns can cause lifelong scarring, loss of feeling, and even life-threatening complications like infections or organ damage.
Anyone who causes you to get hurt in this way should be held accountable for their actions. However, as any catastrophic injury attorney knows, that’s often easier said than done. Fortunately, help is available from a Watertown burn injury lawyer at D’Amico & Pettinicchi, LLC. We know how to fight for the rights of people just like you through settlement negotiations and, if necessary, civil court trials. Let us help you seek the justice you deserve.
The exact value of a burn injury claim can vary from case to case, since every person will be affected differently and may suffer different losses.
That said, a Watertown burn injury attorney can play a key role in getting you the maximum amount of compensation possible for your claim, which can mean recovering for both economic and non-economic forms of harm, including but not limited to:
We’ll also make sure that we don’t get paid unless you do and that court costs and fees don’t unfairly reduce the money you deserve for your damages.
On top of naming and assigning a fair value to your injury-related losses, a lawyer’s support can also be key to establishing that you have valid grounds to file suit over a burn injury in the first place. Most of the time, this is just a matter of proving that someone else directly caused your injury by acting in a reckless or careless way around you.
It’s worth emphasizing, though, that it may not be practical to file a personal injury lawsuit in Connecticut over an injury that’s not serious enough to need professional medical care of some kind. This means that first-degree burns can’t always serve as the practical basis for a civil claim, even if they’re 100 percent someone else’s fault. That is because first-degree burns usually heal completely on their own with nothing more than basic first aid.
Taking legal action over any kind of injury is a complex and time-consuming process, and that goes double for injuries like high-degree burns that are likely to have life-changing repercussions. When you are harmed this severely and know that someone else is to blame, you can’t afford to file a lawsuit alone. Instead, you should seek assistance from legal professionals with a track record of success in cases like yours.
At D’Amico & Pettinicchi, LLC, we believe in helping real people and not just taking on faceless clients. We won’t take your case to begin with unless we’re sure we can put meaningful money in your pocket.
Learn more about how a Watertown burn injury lawyer from our team can help you with your case by calling and scheduling a free—remote or in-person—private consultation.
