Veteran Atlanta, Georgia Burn Injury Attorneys
The Atlanta law firm of Watkins, Lourie, Roll & Chance represents individuals and family members in cases involving burn injuries from fires, chemicals, infection, friction, defective products, and shearing accidents.
Have you or a loved one suffered severe burns in an accident? Contact our Atlanta office today to discuss your case in a free consultation. Call 404-760-7400.
What Causes a Burn Injury?
At Watkins, Lourie, Roll & Chance, we represent people throughout the Atlanta metro area who have suffered burn injuries in a variety of accidents, including:
- Car accidents
- Dangerous product injuries
- Boiling water spills
- Residential fires
- Electrical fires
- Explosions
The Cost of a Burn Injury
The true economic cost of a burn injury can be millions of dollars in lost wages, medical expenses, and medical technology. Burn injury victims also have to deal the physical and emotional scars of the injury, along with years of painful surgeries and skin grafts.
If you or a loved one has suffered a burn injury, it is very important to have a qualified investigator determine the cause of the injury. If the burn injury resulted from the use of a defective product, then that product needs to be preserved for evidence. If the burn injury resulted from a residential fire, we will investigate to find out if the fire was someone’s fault.
The cause and origin of fires is a complicated matter that requires highly trained experts. It’s not something you should trust solely to the governmental agency charged with that responsibility.
We hire our own experts. The fire investigation done by the governmental agency may be perfectly adequate, but there might be issues we need to follow up on, such as a lack of functioning smoke alarms.
Case example:
In one case we handled, 16 people had died in a nursing home fire in Nashville, Tennessee. We represented the families of four residents who died in the fire and settled the cases for confidential amounts.
We were proud not only to secure financial compensation for our clients, but also to help bring about changes that might help prevent similar tragedies in the future.
Following the case, the Government Accounting Office (GAO) published an extensive report on nursing home fire safety, and the federal Nursing Home Fire Safety Act of 2004 (H.R. 4987) ) was introduced.
Contact Us — Free Consultations
Are you trying to recover from a burn injury? Take up the fight. Contact a veteran lawyer at Watkins, Lourie, Roll & Chance.
For more examples of successful burn injury cases we have handled, see Victories. We work closely with the Burn Injury Law Group.
