At Harting Simkins & Ryan, LLP, our team works diligently to recover both “special” and “general” damages on behalf of our clients. Special damages are also referred to as economic damages, and these refer to the more calculable types of losses individuals experience after sustaining a burn injury. General damages refer to non-economic losses individuals experience after sustaining a burn injury. These are harder to calculate, as these types of losses are not as concrete as the economic damages mentioned above.