Personal Injury Case Results – Burn Injuries

Defective Citronella Candle – Burn Injury to Leg; $80,000.00

The plaintiff, a sixty-two year old woman, suffered second degree burns to the calf of her left leg after hot shot from a defective citronella torch candle. Parker | Scheer investigated the manufacturer and determined that the subject candle was defective and had been the subject of a prior manufacturer’s recall. The plaintiff’s incident-related burn injury medical bills totaled $1,500. The case settled as a result of telephone negotiations.
Trial report for this burn injury case.

Nursing Home’s Negligent Transport of Hot Coffee – Burn Injury to Back; $68,700

A 92-year-old resident of the defendant nursing home, suffered second degree burns to her back when a food cart collided with her wheelchair, causing a carafe of scalding coffee to topple off the food cart and douse the plaintiff’s back. Parker | Scheer was prepared to demonstrate that the defendant’s employee had breached the nursing home’s policy regarding the transport of hot coffee by placing the carafe atop the cart instead of within it, which could have prevented the burn injury to the plaintiff.
Trial report for this burn injury case

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