A burn injury can cause intense pain and make it impossible for you to work, engage in your favorite hobbies, or even spend time with people without embarrassment or shame. If another party caused your burn injury, you deserve compensation. Our Woodstock personal injury lawyers can help you seek justice and compensation for your medical bills, lost wages, and “pain and suffering” and inconvenience.
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Compensation Our Burn Injury Lawyers Can Recover for You
What you can recover depends on the specifics of your burn injuries and your situation. For example, if you suffered third-degree burns, you will likely recover more than someone who suffered a second-degree burn injury. If your burns are in highly visible places or affect movement, you will likely be eligible for more than someone who suffered burns they can hide or that don’t affect movement.
Recoverable compensation may include:
- Medical bills, such as emergency care, transportation to an emergency room or burn center, wound cleaning and debridement, prescription medications, skin grafting surgery, reconstructive surgery, plastic surgery,
- Lost wages for the time that you needed for recovery
- Lost earning capacity if your injuries required you to get a lower-paying job, work fewer hours, or retire from the workforce
- Miscellaneous expenses, such as transportation to and from doctor’s appointments or treatment centers and renovations to your home or vehicle to accommodate a wheelchair
- “Pain and suffering” and inconvenience
If you lost a loved one due to burn injuries, please accept our sincere condolences. Our Woodstock wrongful death lawyers want to help you seek justice and the compensation you need to make ends meet while you grieve and spend time with your family.
Why You Want a Woodstock Burn Injury Attorney From Our Firm
Woodstock has its fair share of personal injury attorneys but they don’t have what we do. When you hire our firm to help with your burn injury case, you get experience with burn injuries, but you get something extra. You get experience on both sides of the table. Jim Parrish, our founder, opened our doors 20 years ago, but before that, he worked for insurance companies. He defended the same companies he now fights against. He uses the experience he gained inside the insurance company to protect his clients from the tactics they use to devalue or deny claims. For example:
- He knows that insurance companies use AI software to review claims. This often leads to unfair denials. He knows the best way to defend against this.
- He knows that insurance adjusters often request recorded statements in an attempt to get claimants to say something that jeopardizes their case. He manages communication with insurers on his clients’ behalf so that they cannot take advantage.
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Can I Afford Help from a Woodstock Injury Lawyer?
Yes. Our team handles cases on a contingency-fee basis. This means that you don’t pay any upfront fees to get started. You don’t pay anything out of pocket and only pay if we recover compensation for you.
Our payment is an agreed-upon portion of your settlement or award.
We also offer a FREE claim review. During this call, you learn more about us, and we learn more about you and your case. If we determine that we are able to help you, we will create a customized case plan that details the next steps.
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What to Do After a Burn Injury in Woodstock
- The first thing you need to do after a burn injury is to get medical care. The care you need depends on the specifics of your injuries.
- For a first-degree burn injury, you likely only need to run the burn site under cool water for 10 minutes and maybe apply some aloe gel.
- For a second-degree burn injury, run your burn under cool water for 10 minutes, bandage your wound, and change your bandage daily. If the burn is extremely painful or looks infected (e.g., leaking pus, swollen), you need to see a doctor. You may want to go to MedExpress Urgent Care Woodstock Urgent Care or Valley Health Shenandoah Memorial Hospital Multispecialty Clinic.
- For a third-degree burn, you should loosely cover the burn with gauze. Keep the burn site elevated. You will need immediate medical care. This is true regardless of whether your burn is causing extreme pain or no pain at all. In fact, if you are feeling no pain at the wound site, you likely have nerve damage.
- Once you have received treatment, file a claim with the at-fault party’s insurance company. Only give the insurance adjuster the basics of the injury (when it happened, where it happened). If they ask for a recorded statement, politely decline and direct them to us.
- Continue with your medical care. Do not skip appointments or disobey doctor’s orders.
- Do not accept a settlement without running it by us first.
- Call a Woodstock burn injury lawyer today.
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How Long Do I Have to Take Action After a Woodstock Burn Injury?
Virginia’s statute of limitations gives you two years after a burn injury to take legal action, per Va. Code § 8.01-243. If you fail to act within this time limit, you risk recovering nothing. You still have the right to negotiate, but you’ll likely lose out on thousands of dollars or more.
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Our team is standing by, ready to help you with your burn injury case. All you need to do is call. We’ll handle the rest. Let us learn more about your case during a FREE claim review.
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