Burns are some of the most painful and disabling injuries that affect our clients at Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers. More than 500,000 people who are burned every year require medical attention. A significant percentage of burns are due to accidents that are the fault of another person.
Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers has represented clients with burns due to:
- Fires
- Chemicals
- Industrial accidents
- Car accidents
- Electrical accidents
- Inadequately supervised nursing home or hospital patients who smoke
- Lack of supervision of children in day care or foster homes
Depending on the severity of the burn, a surgery such as a skin graft may be necessary to relieve some of the pain and minimize some of the disfigurement that accompanies most burns.
Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers takes burn cases seriously and invests the necessary time and resources to secure the most favorable outcome possible. In some burn cases, we will use professional photographers to accurately depict the full extent of the disfigurement and scarring related to burns.
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This year alone, more than 50 reports of injuries and 2 fatalities have been reported to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission related to household use of a popular gel fuels. The gel fuel products have experienced a new wave of popularity over the summer months as consumers use the gels to provide ambiance and outdoor light to their summertime fun.
A recent article in The Chicago Tribune discussed the dangerous aspects of these gels by documenting several situations where people were severely burned by splattering gel fuel. In one situation, a man was sent to the hospital with second and third degree burns after another party-goer attempted to re-fill a torch with more fuel….
A two-year old toddler is spending time in the burn unit of an Indiana hospital after the caregiver at his daycare center tried to apparently teach him a cruel lesson for poorly aiming while urinating.
After an initial claim that the boy simply ‘fell’ into a tub of lukewarm water, the caregiver acknowledged that the boy received scald burns when she deliberately placed him in boiling hot water at her home-based daycare center. Now the caregiver and daycare owner, identified as Irene Martin, faces criminal charges of felony neglect and battery. If convicted, Ms. Martin would spend at least 12-and-a-half years in jail….
Smoking remains one of the most ordinary— yet perhaps the most dangerous activities that takes place in nursing homes everyday. Maybe its due to the fact that smoking is such a commonplace activity in nursing homes, many staff simply fail to understand its potentially dangerous impact on both the individual smoker— as well as the overall safety of all patients and staff at the facility.
The fact remains, hundreds of thousands of nursing home patients smoke cigarettes on a regular basis. As such, nursing homes need to both create and implement a smoking safety policy to minimize the chance of fire and injury at their facilities. Further, the smoking policy should be reviewed with patients and their families to help encourage compliance and rectify and misunderstandings….
Perhaps one of the more frustrating aspects of my job as a nursing home lawyer is the fact that so many nursing home employees forget to bring their common sense to work. Though there seems to be a never ending array of federal and and state nursing home regulations, the regulations really mean nothing if employees forget to use common sense and good judgment. While some nursing home abuse and neglect cases stem from extremely complex medical complications, a substantial number of injuries to nursing home patients occur simply due to the fact that some one made a stupid mistake.
If placing a space heater within inches of a bed-bound patient doesn’t count as mark in the stupid category, then then I’m not sure what would. Recently, the Star Tribune reported that five nursing home patients were seriously injured in portable heater mishaps in Minnesota nursing homes over the past year….