What This Page Covers
- What disfigurement means and how scarring injuries can affect a person’s life
- Common types of disfiguring injuries, including burns, facial injuries, amputations, lacerations, and eye injuries
- Accident types that may lead to scarring or disfigurement, including crashes, dog attacks, workplace accidents, and medical malpractice
- How a disfigurement attorney can help victims pursue compensation after a serious injury
Why This Matters
- Scarring and disfigurement can cause physical pain, emotional distress, and lasting changes to appearance
- Victims may need medical care, surgery, counseling, physical therapy, or long-term support
- Insurance companies may try to minimize the seriousness of scarring or disfigurement
- Legal support can help victims document their losses and pursue fair compensation
Key Actions You Can Take
- Get medical treatment for any serious burn, cut, facial injury, amputation, or other disfiguring injury
- Keep records of medical bills, treatment plans, therapy, lost wages, and personal expenses
- Take photos of the injury over time to document scarring, healing, and visible changes
- Speak with a disfigurement attorney before accepting a settlement
Why You Need a Disfigurement Attorney
After an accident, victims have a right to seek compensation for physical and psychological pain and financial damages related to the incident.
Winning cases involving scarring and disfigurement can be challenging, especially when the at-fault party has high-powered lawyers and an insurance company that doesn’t want to pay.
It is essential to work with an experienced personal injury attorney who knows how to win cases like yours.
Call (410) 753-4611 today for a free initial consultation with a Zirkin & Schmerling disfiguring scars attorney. We pride ourselves on our compassionate approach, ensuring you feel supported throughout your legal journey.
Types of Compensation Awarded to Victims of Scarring and Disfigurement
Following an accident, you can be awarded compensation for monetary damages, such as medical bills, and non-monetary damages, such as emotional distress.
Punitive damages may also be awarded if a person or organization intentionally caused your scarring or severe disfigurement.
Damages an attorney can help you receive compensation for include:
- Medical bills
- Loss of current and future wages
- Physical therapy
- Counseling
- Loss of enjoyment of life
- Emotional distress
- Disfigurement
- Physical impairment or disability
Keep records of everything relating to the accident, your scarring injuries, and personal expenses to make a stronger case. Your personal injury attorney will need these to substantiate your damage request and ensure we can get the compensation you deserve.
Suffer scarring or a disfigurement injury? Call Zirkin & Schmerling today at (410) 753-4611 to discuss potential financial compensation.
What Is Disfigurement?
A disfiguring injury leaves a person’s appearance physically altered.
The most common disfigurements are severe scar tissue damage, chemical burns, and amputation, but many other types of serious injuries can leave a person disfigured.
In some cases, the disfigurement may not have resulted from an accident but a congenital disability or a chronic illness or disease.
Examples of Disfiguring Injuries
The severity of the scarring and disfigurement that someone suffers depends on the individual circumstances and how the injury occurred.
Emergency medical treatment options are designed to save a person, but they sometimes cause more severe scars or disfigurement injuries.
Medical procedures to repair damage (like plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery, skin grafts, or cosmetic surgery) can also impact healing rate and quality.
If you suffer from any disfiguring injuries below, contact personal injury attorneys to discuss your case.
Common disfiguring and scarring injuries include:
- Thermal, chemical, or electrical burn injury
- Broken and fractured bones
- Facial injuries
- Severe lacerations and puncture wounds
- Eye injuries
- Amputations
- Spinal injuries and deformities
Did you or a family member suffer facial scarring from a disfigurement injury? Call Zirkin & Schmerling at (410) 753-4611 for a free consultation.
How Do Disfiguring and Scarring Injuries Happen?
Though car accidents are one of the leading causes of disfigurement injury, many other accident types cause permanent damage.
Zirkin & Schmerling handles cases for victims who have been disfigured in accidents and medical procedures gone wrong, including:
- Semi-truck and motor vehicle accidents
- Motorcycle accidents
- Bicycle accidents
- Pedestrian accidents
- Dog attacks
- Workplace accidents
- Medical malpractice
- Birth injury
- Fires and explosions
- Exposure to chemical substances
- Physical assault
Don’t suffer alone. Get help when a disfigurement injury leaves you with emotional and physical pain and suffering.
Zirkin & Schmerling Disfigurement Attorney
Whether you are pursuing a car accident, dog bite, or another personal injury claim, proving how scarring and disfigurement negatively affected your life and may continue to affect your life can be challenging.
At Zirkin & Schmerling, we gather the evidence needed and will fight to win you the compensation you deserve.
Your well-being is our top priority. We are here to provide comprehensive legal support to help you navigate through these challenging times. We understand how drastically a victim’s can be altered by a tragic accident that results in severe disfiguring injuries.
Scarring and Disfigurement Common FAQs
What types of jobs can be affected by scarring or disfigurement?
Scarring or disfigurement can affect jobs involving physical labor, public-facing work, or the use of the injured body part. This may include construction, healthcare, serving, sales, teaching, driving, performing, or any role affected by mobility, communication, confidence, or appearance.
What if I get a procedure to reduce the scar or disfigurement?
You may still have a claim even if surgery, skin grafting, laser treatment, or another procedure improves the injury. The original injury, medical costs, pain, recovery time, emotional distress, and any remaining scarring or limitations may still be considered.
What if a child suffers scarring or disfigurement?
Scarring or disfigurement in a child can be especially complex because the full physical, emotional, and developmental impact may not be known right away. Future growth, additional procedures, confidence, bullying, and long-term medical needs may all need to be considered before resolving a claim.
Can I recover compensation if the scar is not on my face?
Yes. Facial scars are often taken seriously because they are highly visible, but scarring on other parts of the body can also support a claim. The value may depend on the scar’s size, location, pain, visibility, function, and effect on your daily life.
Can the type of scar, such as a keloid or flat scar, affect compensation?
Yes. The type of scar may affect how a claim is evaluated, especially if it is raised, painful, highly visible, difficult to treat, or emotionally distressing. A keloid scar may require additional treatment and may be more noticeable than a flat scar, but compensation depends on the full impact of the injury, not the scar type alone.
Contact us at (410) 753-4611 for a free consultation with one of our personal injury attorneys today.
