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Burns can be devastating injuries. Not only are they excruciatingly painful, but they may require a long recovery process, including a stay in a burn unit, ongoing procedures, and even plastic surgery. These types of injuries can be especially dangerous for seniors who are at higher risk of disease and other health conditions.
If your loved one was burned while staying at a nursing home, an experienced senior living abuse attorney could help you pursue compensation for those damages. Call today to meet with a Long Island nursing home burn injuries lawyer.
Burns in nursing homes typically occur because of either negligence or abuse. Common challenges in nursing homes include:
Unfortunately, many nursing homes across Long Island are understaffed, which means that staff members cannot keep an eye on everything at the same time. As a result, seniors can end up with severe burns before a staff member realizes that there is a problem. Fires in nursing homes can also pose a serious danger, especially if the facility does not meet fire safety codes.
Most of the time, the nursing home will bear direct liability for any negligence that led to burns in its residents, including a lack of fire safety precautions and failure to properly supervise seniors or keep them away from hazardous items. However, other entities, including vendors that left items on the premises that pose a fire risk, can also share liability.
Working with an experienced Long Island nursing home burn injury attorney could help seniors and their families determine all factors that likely contributed to the burns and who they can file a claim against.
Filing a claim for burns in a nursing home can help seniors or their family members recover compensation for the financial losses associated with those injuries, as well as the emotional challenges and suffering that can result. If the senior files a burn injury claim with a Long Island lawyer, it will generally include compensation for the high medical costs that follow many severe burns, including a stay in a burn unit, surgeries and procedures, and increased cost of care.
The senior may also have the right to include compensation for the cost of moving to a new nursing home facility if they need more care than the nursing home can provide or if the nursing home is no longer safe. Burn injury claims also include compensation for the victim’s pain and suffering.
If a senior dies because of their burns, the surviving family may have the right to file a wrongful death claim, which will include compensation for final funeral expenses.
The aftermath of severe injuries in a nursing home can feel utterly devastating. Not only do you or your senior loved one have to deal with the pain of burns, but you may also feel distress and fear as you deal with the fact that the nursing home is not a safe environment.
Working with a Long Island nursing home burn injury lawyer could help you get a closer look at the damages you can include in your claim and the compensation you deserve. Contact Duffy & Duffy today to begin the claim process.
After years of serving New York–including the Bronx, Queens and Nassau, Suffolk and Kings Counties–, we are confident our injury lawyers can assist you with your claim. We are well respected by our clients, who appreciate not only the outcomes we’ve provided but also the care in which we resolved their cases. As you can see from our successful settlements, we offer excellent results, though the outcome varies depending on the case. Regardless of your case details, you can rest assured our Long Island car accident attorneys will always fight for you as you seek compensation to pay for medical bills, vehicle repairs and more. You deserve to be made whole again after your accident, and Duffy & Duffy is here to help.
No. Our injury cases are handled on a contingent retainer. You pay nothing upfront, and we recover attorney’s fees only if your litigation is successful. We don’t bill by the hour. You don’t need to worry about running up a large attorney’s bill before you see any recovery for your injuries.
Yes. Our firm is dedicated to creating a strong relationship with our clients, beginning with keeping your information and consultation confidential.
Each case we encounter is carefully screened and evidence scrutinized to make sure the claim is meritorious and may be successful at trial. We will perform an investigation, and then our partners make a final decision on whether to take on a case.
