Roden Law represents burn-injury victims across Columbia, South Carolina and the Midlands — Lexington, Irmo, West Columbia, Cayce, and Forest Acres. Burn injuries are among the most catastrophic and painful injuries a person can suffer, often requiring skin grafts, multiple surgeries, and lifelong care for scarring and disfigurement. We handle every case on a contingency fee basis: you pay nothing unless we win. Roden Law has recovered more than $300 million for injured clients across Georgia and South Carolina and holds a 4.9-star average from hundreds of client reviews. Call (803) 219-2816 for a free, confidential case review.
Why Choose Roden Law for a Columbia Burn Injury Claim
Serious burn cases are expensive to prove and expensive to treat, and insurers routinely dispute how a fire or explosion started and push to settle before the full cost of future skin-graft revisions and scar-management care is known. What separates Roden Law is the investigation and expert work needed to trace the cause and document lifetime needs. Our Columbia office at 1545 Sumter Street, Suite B sits in the downtown corridor minutes from the Richland County Circuit Court.
- No fee unless we win — free consultation and no out-of-pocket cost to pursue your claim.
- We trace the cause — defective products, unsafe premises, and workplace hazards each point to a different responsible party and a different insurance policy.
- Full lifetime value — disfigurement, future surgeries, and long-term care often drive the value of a burn case, and we account for all of it before any settlement.
Common Causes of Burn Injuries in the Columbia Area
Burn injuries in the Midlands arise from fires and explosions, scalding liquids and steam, chemical exposure, electrical contact, and defective consumer products such as water heaters, space heaters, and lithium-ion batteries. The area’s distribution and manufacturing employers add industrial burn risks, and residential fires can involve faulty wiring or appliances. Identifying whether a burn stems from a defective product, an unsafe premises, or a workplace hazard is the first and most important step in a Columbia burn case.
South Carolina Burn Injury Law You Should Know
Many burn cases sound in product liability — South Carolina recognizes strict liability for defective products under S.C. Code § 15-73-10, so a manufacturer can be liable for a dangerously defective product without proof of negligence. Other burn claims arise from premises liability (an unsafe condition on someone’s property) or, when the injury happened at work, from workers’ compensation, which in South Carolina can include a scheduled component for serious bodily disfigurement. The general deadline to file a personal-injury lawsuit is three years from the date of injury under S.C. Code § 15-3-530, South Carolina follows modified comparative negligence (you can recover as long as you are 50% or less at fault), and there is no cap on compensatory damages in ordinary injury cases. Learn more on our South Carolina product liability lawyers page and our South Carolina comparative negligence guide.
