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Traumatic burn and scald injuries are life-changing, leaving lasting physical, emotional and psychological scars. These devastating injuries can be fatal or lead to amputation, sight loss, severe scarring and chronic pain conditions or PTSD, caused by the original accident and injury or its complications.
Physical disfigurement, pain, and disability from burn and scald injury can disrupt every aspect of the injured person’s life, reducing mobility, dexterity and self-confidence, and affecting work, relationships and social or sporting activities. Survivors of severe burn or scald injuries often need corrective surgery and a range of rehabilitation, pain management and psychological treatments to help them make their best possible recovery and restore their quality of life.
If you have been severely injured in an accident that was someone else’s fault, our personal injury solicitors can secure immediate funding for rehabilitation and treatment to maximise your recovery, as well as longer term financial help from burn injury compensation.
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It costs nothing to talk to us to find out about making a personal injury claim for yourself or a member of your family. You can contact us by telephone or by email for free, confidential advice from a specialist personal injury solicitor. In serious injury cases, we often visit our clients in the hospital or at their home if they are unable to get to our offices.
We will ask you to tell us briefly about the accident and injury. We will advise you about any time limits that may apply and whether we can help you make a claim. Your solicitor will discuss with you how your claim will be funded and advise, fully and clearly, how that works and what it will mean for you. We offer a range of funding options, but most of our clients’ claims are handled on a ‘no win no fee’ basis.
We will put your claim to the defendant individual or organisation whose negligence caused your injury, and we will handle all communication on your behalf. The defendant’s insurers will usually handle the claim on the defendant’s behalf and will be responsible for paying any compensation.
Once we are in contact with the defendant’s insurers, we can begin to secure the necessary rehabilitation and specialist support to meet the injured person’s immediate needs whilst we proceed with the claim.
Senior Partner, Personal Injury
Our client was injured attempting to stop a leak from a stock boiler. He suffered severe scald burns to his chest, abdomen, legs, feet, and arms. His injury caused extensive, permanent scarring and discolouration, nerve pain, burning sensations and swelling. He also has ongoing PTSD, depression, and anxiety following the incident. We secured an out-of-court settlement providing our client with £120,000 compensation and ongoing rehabilitation including pain management for the nerve pain in his legs and PTSD/psychological treatment.
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Katie Piper Foundation was set up by Katie Piper OBE, after she survived an acid attack, to provide support to burns injury survivors. Our personal injury solicitors were proud to be appointed amongst the founding members of the KPF legal panel , which offers specialist legal support and advice to those who have suffered burns, scalds and traumatic scarring injuries.
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I approached Claire Roantree of Boyes Turner in regards to making a claim about a workplace burns injury. It was something that had scarred me physically and mentally and taken a huge toll on the lives of me and my family. Claire wasted no time in finding out what happened and made sure I was treated by known experts and quickly finding an answer to my burns scarring and how I could be treated to help manage my pain. Claire also helped me by appointing a psychiatrist to understand my situation and help me cope with post traumatic stress disorder. As well as taking as much stress of the claim away, she was thorough in every situation, making sure I had the best possible claim, and handled it all expertly, I am so very grateful to her and her team. They have helped guide my life back into a positive direction and I can't thank her enough!
Burn injuries can be caused by accidents or exposure to heat, chemicals, fire, and flame. Scalds are caused by wet heat, such as hot water or steam. If a burn or scald burn injury is caused by someone else’s negligence, the injured person may be able to claim compensation.
Common types of burn or scald burn negligence which lead to burn injury compensation claims include:
Workplace accidents are the most common negligent cause of adult burn injuries. If you have suffered a burn or scald injury at work, you may be entitled to substantial compensation.
The law requires employers and business owners to protect their workers from scalds and burn injuries at work by providing a safe environment. They can do this through health and safety awareness, risk assessment and planning, and providing their workers with training, supervision, equipment and PPE. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), which provides guidance and enforces workplace health and safety, says that most fires are preventable.
Our personal injury solicitors are experts in obtaining rehabilitation funding and compensation for injuries caused by workplace accidents. All claims are made against the employers’ insurers and are handled professionally and sensitively. Many of our clients are able to continue working or receive ongoing support from their employer whilst we manage their claim.
Burn and scald injury compensation claims often involve severe disability and financial losses arising from one or more of the following:
We work closely with our clients and our experts to ensure that we understand the impact of their burn injury and the effect that it will have on their life. This allows us to ensure that each client’s compensation meets their needs arising from their injury and ongoing disability. We aim to ensure that our clients receive rehabilitation to maximise their recovery, as well as the best possible compensation for the individual circumstances of their claim.
Burn injury claims often include sums to compensate or meet the costs of:
After fatal burn injury, compensation for the deceased’s partner, dependents and estate may include a sum for the deceased’s pain and suffering leading up to their death, as well as funeral expenses, financial losses arising from the loss of the deceased’s income or ‘services’ (such as childcare or household tasks) and a statutory bereavement payment.
Burns are classified according to how deeply and severely they harm the skin.
A burn injury claim can be a lifeline to specialist support, funded rehabilitation and access to private medical and surgical care, therapies and pain management and psychological or PTSD treatment, and restored long-term financial security.
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