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San Diego and California Burn Injury Attorney
 
Burn injuries are catastrophic injuries that require careful attention to the future needs and cost of future care for the burn-injured person.  Because they are often catastrophic injuries, burn injuries can result in life-long disability and the need for life-long medical care, lifecare assistance, and household services assistance, among other needs.  Such catastrophic injuries require careful analysis of complicated financial damage calculations, large damage awards, well-crafted structured settlements, analysis of the effects of reduced life expectancy, and placing values on a person's daily needs for his or her life expectancy.  Experienced analysis is required to carefully calculate the future needs of the injured person and place  financial values on those needs to ensure appropriate compensation for the catastrophically burn-injured person.
 
Burn injuries often result in fatalities due to shock they place on the human body.  In those cases, a wrongful death lawsuit can hold the responsible party or parties accountable.  If not fatal, burn injuries can be extremely painful because burns damage nerve endings in the skin.  Burn injuries can range from "first degree," where the first layer of skin is burned to "third degree," in which all the layers of the skin are burned.  Third degree is the most severe and painful burn condition involving destruction of the skin's nerve endings, deep and extensive scarring, and possible skin grafts to cover the burned area.  
 
David Lopez, Esq., has litigated and taken to trial a variety of burn injury lawsuits in his 21 years of trial law practice. David has more than 20 years experience handling complex serious injury, catastrophic injury, and wrongful death cases.   
 
Burn injuries present the injured person with physical injuries and challenges as well as phychological injuries and challenges.  These challenges are usually life-long.  Burn injuries can be caused by fire, heat, electrical, chemical, radiation, and gaseous sources.  Burn injuries can affect other parts of the body and the injured person's menatl and emotional condition.  Muscles, nerves, blood vessels, blood flow, body fluid levels, bones, body temperature, respiratory system, physical ability to do tasks, joint functions and physical appearance, among other aspects, can be affected by severe burn injuries.
 
If you have been injured, or a loved one has died, as a result of severe burn injuries from an accident, please contact David Lopez, Esq., by e-mail at david@davidlopezlaw.com, or by telephone at 619-985-6187, for a free consultation and case evaluation.