Every year, more than 29,000 people are hospitalized with severe burn injuries, often caused by avoidable accidents. The costs of treating these serious burn injuries can be overwhelming. According to the National Business Group on Health, low-intensity treatments for moderate burns can exceed $200,000 and become much greater if a person experiences complications. More severe burns can cost millions just for treatment alone.
When you’ve suffered burn injuries in a motor vehicle accident, due to a fire or explosion, or in an avoidable accident at work in Jackson, Mississippi, it’s important to know that you don’t have to navigate the consequences on your own - especially if someone else is at fault. You may be entitled to compensation, and working with an experienced Jackson, Mississippi burn injury attorney at Singleton Schreiber can help you maximize your recovery.
Burn victims in Mississippi trust Singleton Schreiber because we’re local lawyers who utilize our law firm’s national resources to get our clients the best possible results. We’re recognized as leaders in personal injury litigation by Law Dragon 500, Super Lawyers, and Best Lawyers in America because of our client-driven strategies and billion-dollar track record of success.
Contact our law office in Jackson, MS, today to discover the kind of impact we can have on your burn injury case, too. Your first consultation is free.
Decades of Experience Fighting For Burn Victims in All Types of Personal Injury Cases
There are four primary causes of burn injuries: chemical exposure, thermal exposure, electrocution, and radiation exposure. Most often, burns are caused when the skin is scalded by contact with fire, hot metal objects, steam, or hot liquids.
It’s common to suffer burn injuries in this (and other) ways when you’ve been a victim of:
- Car accidents
- Truck accidents
- Motorcycle accidents
- Bicycle accidents
- Pedestrian accidents
- Uber and Lyft accidents
- Wildfires
- Workplace accidents
- Construction accidents
- An explosion involving a defective product, such as a vape pen or another product containing lithium-ion batteries
- Accidents involving household appliances, including Instant Pots and other pressure cookers
- Boating accidents
- Medical malpractice
- Nursing home abuse or neglect
Sometimes, burn injuries are the result of criminal acts of violence, like arson or assault, too.
Singleton Schreiber is a top-rated team of Jackson, Mississippi personal injury lawyers who’ve spent decades fighting on behalf of burn victims. We’ve forced powerful insurance companies, government agencies, manufacturers of defective products, and other adversaries to pay our client more than $3 Billion in damages. Call us to get us in your corner for your burn injury case, too.
Lithium-Ion Battery Explosions and Burn Injuries
Lithium-ion batteries, often found in consumer electronics, can become dangerous if they malfunction or are misused. Overheating or internal defects can lead to catastrophic explosions, causing severe burns and other injuries. If you've been injured due to a faulty lithium-ion battery, you may have a valid product liability claim. Our skilled burn injury attorneys have experience litigating these types of cases, such as the Moss Landing Battery fire, and are here to help you seek justice and compensation for your injuries.
What Are the Long-Term Consequences of a Burn Injury?
Burns can be relatively minor, cause lifelong damage, or, in some cases, be fatal. The long-term outlook for a burn injury will depend largely on the type of burn injury that’s sustained, the percentage of the body that’s damaged by the burn, and the victim’s underlying health.
First Degree Burns
First-degree burns pose the lowest threat for long-term health issues because they only damage part of the outer layer of the skin, known as the epidermis. Superficial burns, as they’re sometimes referred, often heal on their own with minimal treatment within one to two weeks. Sunburn is the most common example of a first-degree burn.
Second Degree Burns
Second-degree burns can pose a moderate threat to future health, depending on the severity of the injury. Known as partial thickness burns, both the epidermis and dermis sustain damage. These burns tend to appear red and hot to the touch and may begin to blister in more serious cases.
Partial-thickness burns can cause permanent physical scarring and, in some cases, cause a person to experience hypersensitivity to hot and/or cold temperatures.
Third Degree Burns
Also known as full-thickness burns - because all layers of the skin are damaged - third-degree burns pose a very real risk of life-long consequences and complications. Third-degree burns penetrate into tissue under the skin, including the muscle, tendons, and nerves. In some serious cases, bone damage can begin, too.
As a result, potential long-term consequences can include disfigurement, physical scarring, amputation, limited physical mobility due to contractures or limb loss, and other functional limitations.
Fourth Degree Burns
Fourth-degree burns are the most severe and, if they’re not fatal, leave victims struggling with debilitating long-term complications. Fourth-degree burns often cause significant bone damage, carry high risks of infection, and often require extensive surgical interventions, including the need for skin grafts or amputation.
Victims of fourth-degree burns may face significantly limited physical mobility, limb loss, and severe psychological trauma.
Why Should I Hire a Burn Injury Attorney in Jackson, Mississippi?
When your burn injuries happened on the job or because someone else was negligent, you deserve to be compensated. However, navigating a contested legal claim for damages can be challenging, especially when you’re trying to cope with debilitating and painful physical burn injuries.
Hiring an experienced Mississippi burn injury lawyer in Jackson can give you time to recover and help you increase the odds of getting compensation for your:
- Current and future medical bills
- Lost wages and disability
- Nursing assistance
- Rehabilitation
- Costs paid out-of-pocket
- Pain and suffering
- Chronic physical pain
- Disfigurement and scarring
- Reduced quality of life
- Loss of consortium
- Inconvenience
Funeral expenses can also be awarded when a burn injury results in wrongful death.
Your choice of legal representative matters. At Singleton Schreiber, we’re trusted by injury victims and families because we use smart, cutting-edge legal strategies and genuinely care about our clients.
Asking for our help with your burn injury case means knowing that we’ll:
- Investigate the underlying cause of your burn injury independently and gather the evidence needed to build a winning legal claim for damages
- Assess your damages and identify precisely what your burn injury case is worth
- Enlist expert witnesses to collaborate with our legal team, particularly in relation to non-legal elements of your case and valuation
- Make sure that your rights are exercised to the full extent of the law and that all procedural guidelines set by Mississippi state law are followed
- Protect you against claims of comparative negligence that could potentially limit your ability to recover compensation for your burn injury wounds
- Force the defense to make you a fair settlement offer or take their chances going toe-to-toe against our award-winning civil litigators at trial
We’ll even take your case on a contingent basis. Our fees are directly dependent on the results we achieve. We’ll only get paid if we win compensation for your burn injury case.
Ready to get started? Now’s the time to take action. Contact our Jackson, MS, law office today for a free consultation.