Our Practice

Burn Injuries

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.

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 product, then that product needs to be preserved for evidence. If the burn injury resulted from a residential fire, we encourage you to let us investigate and 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. At Watkins, Lourie, Roll & Chance, 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.

In one of the cases we handled, 16 people died in a nursing home in Nashville, Tennessee. Our firm represented the families of four residents who died in the fire. We settled the four cases for confidential amounts. Following the case, the Government Accounting Office (GAO) published an extensive report on nursing home fire safety and federal legislation (Nursing Home Fire Safety Act of 2004 (H.R. 4987)) was introduced. In this case, 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.

For more examples of successful burn injury cases we have handled, see Victories. We work closely with the Burn Injury Law Group.

Take up the fight. Contact a veteran burn injury lawyer at Watkins, Lourie, Roll & Chance.

The attorneys at Watkins, Lourie, Roll & Chance fight for injured people throughout Georgia, including Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, and Savannah.