De Caro & Kaplen, LLP Has Decades of Experience in Representing Victims of Burn Injury.

For the past 26 years we have been involved in representing individuals who have received second and third degree burn injuries. We have helped burn injured persons to obtain proper settlements that aid in paying for their necessary rehabilitation and to compensate them for their physical injuries and emotional suffering.

Representing burn victims is an important part of our legal practice. We understand the physical impact, emotional trauma and financial impact your burn injuries have caused you. We will show how the burns you received caused not only severe pain and suffering but how it has affected your quality of life as a burn victim. We understand the lengthy and painful burn treatment that you received and are prepared to obtain the just and proper compensation that you deserve.

We are proud that our senior partner, New York burn injury lawyer, Michael Kaplen was chosen by Trial Lawyers Care to provide pro bono legal representation to a seriously injured World Trade Center disaster burn victim. He was one of the few lawyers chosen to represent catastrophic burn victims for the injuries they sustained. His volunteer legal representation and the significant result received for these burn injuries led to his being honored by Trial Lawyers Care.

Let our knowledge and experience in aiding victims of burn injury work for you.

Landlord Neglect May Have Caused Your Burn Injury

As experienced burn injury lawyers, we have handled burn cases caused by unsafe stoves and hot water temperatures, faulty water heaters that have exploded, broken or absent smoke alarms, defective electrical connections, poorly designed clothing, gas explosions and electrocutions.

We have been able to prove that a landlord's failure to change a necessary part on the burn victim's boiler caused the water temperature to rise to unacceptably high and dangerous levels, which resulted in serious burn injuries for the tenant.

In another case, we represented an elderly man who suffered severe burn injuries when he was left unattended in the bath tub by an orderly who was responsible for supervising him.

Over the years, we have also investigated and successfully represented burn victims hurt in building fires caused by a faulty electrical system, and fires that went unnoticed because of the absence of smoke alarms. We also aided a burn victim caused by a gas explosion as a result of a hot water heater was not installed properly.

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Clothing Fires Cause Needless Burn Injuries

Each year approximately 1/4 million people nationally receive a serious burn injury because the clothing they were wearing caught on fire.

Each day a child or adult becomes a needlessly disfigured burn victim due to clothing that has caught on fire. Although manufacturers know that the technology now exists to flame retard clothing at mere pennies per garment, they have callously chosen not to do so. Instead they hide behind a much criticized federal from the 1950's which allows a garment to be sold even if made of material no safer than a newspaper!

Although precautions exist for the manufacturing of children's sleepwear, makers of children's and adult clothing are not required to meet this standard. The failure of the federal government in this matter does not preclude legal action for any clothing manufacturer's decision to not voluntarily produce safer garments.

De Caro & Kaplen, LLP Has Received Settlements for Burn Victims due to Clothing Needlessly Catching on Fire

One seriously burned victim we represented was simply reaching over her stove to obtain a pot, when her nightgown met the stove's burner. Because of the faulty way the nightgown was manufactured, she was engulfed in flames and in seconds was seriously burned. The personal injury attorneys at De Caro & Kaplen, LLP achieved a settlement in excess of one million dollars for this young woman.

Free-No Obligation Consultation

If you're the victim of a burn injury, please email or call us today toll free at 1 866 BRAIN LAW, for a free, no obligation legal consultation.

We are dedicated to helping you obtain the justice and compensation you deserve in order to seek proper treatment for the burn injuries that you have sustained, as well as the pain and suffering and disfigurement that you must contend with.

We represent burn victims in New York City and throughout New York State. We can work with you on your burn injury case in Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, Staten Island and Queens as well as the surrounding counties of Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland and Westchester. We also handle burn injury cases in other areas of New York including Albany, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and adjoining areas.