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A serious burn is not one event. It is grafting, contracture release, scar revision, infection risk and a permanent change in appearance and function. The acute admission is often the smallest part of the lifetime cost.
Flash fires, steam and hot process fluid, electrical arc flash and chemical burns each cause distinct injury patterns and each points at a different failure. Call 713-521-0059.
Because they are settled on the medical bills already incurred rather than on the care still to come. Future surgeries, therapy, adaptive equipment and lost earning capacity are proved with a life care plan and an economist, not with a stack of past invoices.
Disfigurement and physical impairment are separately recoverable in Texas, and in a burn case they are frequently the largest elements of the claim.
Treating physician records, photographs documented over time as the scarring matures, a life care plan, and vocational evidence about what work is still realistic. Photographs taken early and repeated are more persuasive than any description.
A Texas personal injury claim generally must be filed within two years of the injury under Section 16.003 of the Civil Practice and Remedies Code. Evidence in an industrial setting moves faster than that. Call 713-521-0059.
