California Burn Injury Accident Lawyer

Burn accidents, in addition to physical scarring, can also cause severe emotional scarring. Fear and anger resulting from a burn injury are typical. The stares, questions, and well intended overprotection and sympathy can seem overwhelming to a burn survivor. Questions of self doubt, self worth, and identity arise. As a result of burn injuries relationships can suffer, physical skills become physical challenges, and long periods of hospitalization and recuperation following a burn accident can affect the victim's social orientation and upset progress in education and career.

Southern / Northern California Burn Injury Attorney
It is the burn injury attorney's task to lessen the economic and practical burden borne by the victim of severe burns. Burns can arise from many different sources which may require various legal approaches. Several different legal areas may need to be associated in order to address issues which may commonly arise in burn cases. For instance, a burn case can also involve worker's compensation, defective products, auto accidents, aircraft cases, motorcycle accidents, and many other kinds of accidents. Victims are accidentally burned from almost any kind of accident.

It has been the experience at Cunningham & Lansden Northern and Southern California burn injury attorneys that settlements and verdicts in burn injuries are considerably higher than many other kinds of personal injury cases. Cunningham & Lansden have regional offices in Camarillo, Sacramento and Placerville. Our Camarillo, Sacramento and Placerville burn injury lawyers handle cases throughout Northern and Southern California.

Burn injuries have reached epidemic proportions in recent years and are considered a health care problem which is more serious than the polio epidemic was at its peak. It has only been in the past several years that the medical profession has begun to recognize and understand the problems associated with burns. In the 1950s there were less than 10 hospitals in the United States that specialized in burns. Since that time, there has been significant advancement in understanding the problem of burn injuries and there are now about 200 burn centers in the United States.

Burn accident statistics show that at least 50% of all burn accidents can be prevented. For example, one of every 13 structure fire deaths in the United States was caused by a child setting a fire. Children accidentally burned by playing with fire account for more than one-third of preschool child deaths by fire. In the United States, approximately 2.4 million burn injuries are reported per year. Burn injuries are second to motor vehicle accidents as the leading cause of accidental death in the United States. Burns are one of the most expensive catastrophic injuries to treat. For example, a burn of 30% of total body area can cost well over $200,000 in initial hospitalization costs and for physicians fees. For extensive burns, there are additional significant costs which will include costs for repeat admission for reconstruction and for rehabilitation.

Northern / Southern California Burn Injury Attorney
If you are a serious "accidentally" burned victim, contact a Sacramento burn injury lawyer from Cunningham & Lansden for a free case analysis. We have offices in Northern and Southern California with regional offices in Placerville, Camarillo and Sacramento, A burn injury lawyer from Cunningham & Lansden will come to you if you cannot come to us.