Burn Injury Lawsuit and Settlement Information – Walker & Morgan, LLC, in South Carolina

A burn injury lawsuit can result in a settlement to compensate the victim. Our South Carolina firm has provided a list of positive settlements and verdicts procured by Walker & Morgan, LLC.

Burn Injury

$11,000,000 Settlement; Burn Injury - Propane Supplier

Jane Doe and Baby Doe v ABC DCorporation, a Propane Supplier: Mother and infant child sustained 45% and 25% TBSA third degree burns as a result of a propane explosion in their rented home. Suit alleged failure to perform a leak test on the propane system for the plaintiffs, who were new customers. The explosion resulted with ten minutes of delivery of fuel. It is an $11,000,000 settlement. Specific terms of settlement are confidential.

$8,500,000.00 Settlement; Burn Injury - Sandblaster Causes Explosion

Plaintiff was using a sandblaster to clean a gas tank that had been removed from an old truck. While he was operating the machine, residual gas vapors ignited static electricity generated by the sandblaster, resulting in an explosion. Plaintiff suffered burns, mostly third-degree, over 60 percent of his body. He now has scarring to the burned areas and suffers from sensitivity to light and heat. Plaintiff’s counsel was prepared to show that in testing, the sandblaster put out 8,000 volts of static electricity and that most sandblasters manufactured in the United States have a grounded hose that completely eliminates the production of static electricity.

$2,800,000.00 Settlement; Burn Injury - Defective Switch Box

An electrician was checking a circuit box when a defectively designed switch box failed, creating an electrical arching event. He sustained approximately $600,000 in medical treatment for burns to his upper torso and arms. Suit against the switch manufacturer was settled for 2.8 million dollars.

$2,400,000.00 Settlement; Burn Injury - Operating Room Fire

Plaintiff was undergoing outpatient surgery at a local hospital for excision of earlobe keloid scarring. During this surgery, spontaneous fire and burn injury occurred in the operating room. According to the attending physician, he was using the electrocautery to stop bleeding on the earlobe. The oxygen mask used during the surgery was lying on plaintiff’s chest. The oxygen was flowing from the mask beneath the surgical drapes. When the electrocautery was used, it sparked the oxygen, causing the fire. Plaintiff suffered severe burn injury over a significant portion of her body. She has now developed keloid scarring which will necessitate numerous surgeries during the remainder of her life.

$2,750,000.00 Settlement; Burn Injury - House Fire - Defective Tub (flammable)

Plaintiffs suffered extensive lung injury and burn injury during a house fire due to toxic smoke. Fire broke out in the master bathroom, resulting in combustion of the tub and massive toxic smoke emissions spreading throughout the home. Plaintiffs, awakened from sleep, were overcome by the toxic smoke; they were disoriented and unable to exit the home.

$2,300,000.00 Settlement; Burn Injury - Propane

A Georgia preacher suffered an extensive burn injury when propane leaked into his church and exploded. Plaintiff’s lawsuit alleged the propane delivery company failed to follow proper inspection procedures to ensure integrity of entire propane delivery system.

$5,400,000.00 Jury Verdict; Burn Injury - Propane

A mother tragically lost three children in a house fire caused by the explosion of a portable propane tank negligently filled at a local filling station. Plaintiff’s lawsuit alleged improper procedures in that the tank itself should not have been filled due to expiration of inspection, as well as improper training and inspection procedures by the company that delivered the propane and trained gas station employees.

$1,500,000.00 Settlement; Burn Injury - Negligent Supervision - Nursing Home

Plaintiff’s descendant, a full time ward of a private nursing home in Augusta, Georgia, sustained a fatal burn injury when he caught fire while smoking in his wheelchair. Plaintiff’s lawsuit alleged negligent supervision in violation of numerous nursing home procedures, including inadequate staffing and training.

$450,000.00 Settlement; Burn Injury - Scald Burn - Hot Water Heater

A six-month-old child sustained a scald burn injury in the bathtub of a rented mobile home. Lawsuit alleged the landlord negligently failed to ensure safe water temperatures and was the custodian of the plumbing system that allowed hot water in excess of 150 degrees to exist within the dwelling without warning.

$275,000.00 Settlement; Burn Injury - Hot Water Heater

Plaintiff, a paraplegic, was a guest at a Best Western hotel at a family reunion in Orlando, Florida. The hotel allowed hot water in its system which plaintiff put in the bathtub. When he lowered himself into the bath, 10 percent of his body sustained second-degree burns.

$300,000.00 Settlement; Burn Injury - Kerosene Heater

Three-year-old child suffered a second- and third-degree burn injury on 20 percent of her body when her clothing caught fire as she approached a portable kerosene heater. Plaintiff’s lawsuit alleged the design was defective in that the safety cage around the unit was likely to fail and collapse, allowing the minor’s clothing to catch fire.

$800,000.00 Settlement; Burn Injury - Furniture (Flammable)

Newly purchased furniture in plaintiff’s home caught fire. Plaintiff’s lawsuit alleged the defendants’ furniture contained highly toxic and flammable polyurethane foam, and that the defendants had removed warning tags and labels indicating such danger. Plaintiff sustained burn injuries and smoke inhalation.

$300,000.00 Settlement; Burn Injury - Scald Burn

Two-year-old child received a scald burn injury in a federal housing project as a result of excessively hot water in the apartment where he was living. The hot water heating system was locked in a closet, out of any control of the tenant. The child got into the bathtub, and hot water in excess of 150 degrees burned him before his mother could get him out of the tub.

$275,000.00 Settlement; Burn Injury - Flammable Chemicals

Georgia dry cleaning worker received lower extremity burns when chemicals caught fire at his place of work. Lawsuit alleged failure to properly identify and warn of flammable characteristics of dry cleaning solvent.

If you have been contemplating a burn injury lawsuit in order to obtain a settlement or jury award, contact our South Carolina law firm today.

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Automobile Injury

$800,000.00 Settlement; Automobile Injury Lawsuit - Serious Injury

Plaintiff was a passenger in a limo in a funeral procession when struck head on by another vehicle. She sustained massive orthopedic and facial injury in the car accident.

$750,000.00 Settlement; Automobile Injury Lawsuit - Serious Injury

Florence general practitioner physician suffered compound complex comminuted fracture to the femur when struck head-on by the defendant. Her injury resulted in an intramedullary rod nailing and significant permanent injury.

$900,000.00 Settlement; Automobile/Burn Injury Lawsuit

Truck driver was burned during an automobile accident when fuel was spilled on him from contents of colliding vehicle’s tank. Plaintiff sustained burn injury and underwent skin grafting on his upper extremities.

$2,000,000.00 Settlement; Tractor Trailer - Death

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Other Personal Injury

$300,000.00 Settlement; Personal Injury Lawsuit - Drowning

Five-year-old girl tragically drowned while in the care of her maternal aunt. The lawsuit claimed negligent supervision.

$2,200,000.00 Settlement; Personal Injury Lawsuit - Jones Act/Admiralty

Barge worker became trapped in gears on dredge. His leg was manually amputated in the field by an orthopedic surgeon helicoptered to vessel. He filed an admiralty claim for lack of seaworthiness and Jones Act violations.

$750,000.00 Settlement; Personal Injury Lawsuit - Jones Act/Admiralty

Plaintiff was an oil rig worker on an offshore rig in the Gulf of Mexico when he was knocked overboard. He sustained significant fractures and was out of work in excess of one year. Admiralty claims were filed in New Orleans Federal District Court alleging Jones Act Violations as well as lack of seaworthiness of the rig.

$1,300,000.00 Settlement; Personal Injury Lawsuit - Construction Defects

Condominium Association lawsuit alleged defective construction. Settlement covered numerous buildings and interior damage to individual units.

$1,750,000.00 Settlement; Personal Injury Lawsuit - Workman's Compensation

Worker fell from roof during a construction project. Settlement covered total disability, lifetime medical, and a refund for home nursing care.

$8,500,000.00 Settlement; Personal Injury Lawsuit -Workman's Compensation

Client was sandblasting a detached and empty automobile gas tank when static electricity from the sandblaster ignited gasoline vapors. The product failed to warn of danger.

All of the preceding burn injury and other lawsuits and settlements originated in South Carolina or the other states or areas specified.

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If you or a loved one has experienced a burn injury and you have questions regarding a lawsuit and settlement, please contact our lawyers in South Carolina today.