Marietta Burn Injury Attorney

Burn injuries can occur in a wide variety of circumstances, even when fire or heat is not present. If you are suffering from a burn injury, the party who harmed you may owe you substantial funds. Kaufman Injury Law is here to help you recover those funds and rebuild for the future.

Why Choose Kaufman Injury Law?

Kaufman Injury Law’s mission is to provide individuals and family members with quality representation in personal injury matters. Quality representation involves not only aggressively pursuing compensation but also providing personalized guidance to our clients. 

If you or someone you care about has been injured in a burn accident, we are here to accompany you through the entire claim process. We’ll protect your interests from insurance companies and those who harmed you.

Call for a free consultation today, or contact us online. 

Workers’ Compensation for Burn Injuries

You may be entitled to workers’ compensation for your burn injury if you suffered an on-the-job accident. Burn injuries can happen at any job, from a restaurant job downtown to a maintenance job at Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park. 

Injured workers may seek a variety of economic benefits, depending on the circumstances of their burn accident, including:

• Medical care
• Partial lost wages
• Permanent disability
• Rehabilitation and vocational training
• Death benefits

The problem is that the insurance companies handling these cases work hard at every turn to limit the compensation workers receive. Many cross the line, but workers simply are not aware of their full compensation rights. 

Our workers’ comp lawyers work closely with workers burned on the job to maximize their claims. If you are in need of every penny of worker’s comp available, Kaufman Injury Law is here to help. 

If you have already applied for workers’ comp and have been denied, we can fight to get your claim approved. Due to various reasons, many workers’ claims are denied on the first go around. These reasons include:

• Missing information
• Inaccurate information
• Missing documents
• Missed deadlines
• Other procedural issues

With an experienced workers’ comp attorney representing you, the chances of approval rise considerably. Our team can work with your denied claim and fight to obtain an acceptance. 

Personal Injury Compensation

As you may have realized, workers’ comp benefits are quite limited, even when maximized. Personal injury damages, on the other hand, provide you with a complete suite of compensatory damages.

Economic Damages

Burn injuries routinely lead to significant medical expenses, cause people to miss work, and result in a whole host of related expenses. The law recognizes these and other financial impacts and permits victims to seek damages such as:

• Medical and hospital expenses
• Burn treatment and care
• Lost wages and future economic opportunity
• Expenses for home care, home and vehicle modifications, and other outlays
• Burial, funeral, and other economic losses in cases of fatalities

Our team meticulously calculates burn injury damages to ensure every penny of compensable economic loss is identified and accounted for. 

Non-Economic Damages

Burn injuries cause intense non-economic losses, which are losses associated with intangible distress and harm, such as:

• Pain and suffering
• Loss of enjoyment of life
• Mental anguish
• Loss of consortium
• Wrongful death 

These non-economic damages cause just as much or more suffering than the financial impacts. If a burn injury is causing you pain, you deserve every penny of compensation available under the law. 

Our attorneys will fight ceaselessly to get you the recompense you need and are entitled to. Don’t hesitate to reach out to our burn jury lawyers for a free consultation. 

Proving Liability

If your burn injury occurred on the job, you are not required to prove negligence. Workers’ comp is a no-fault insurance system that pays regardless of fault. However, if you have a personal injury claim, you must have clear evidence of negligence or some other unlawful act as the cause of your injury and damages. 

Ultimately, what qualifies as negligence or an unlawful act depends on the precise circumstances of the burn injury case. At Kaufman Injury Law, we handle burn injury cases stemming from all types of incidents.

Traffic Accidents

With gasoline as the main fuel type, traffic accidents routinely involve severe burn injuries. Fires and explosions cause horrific burning and long-term to permanent harm. 

Kaufman Injury Law has helped numerous victims burned in traffic accidents get justice. We are here for you and are ready to listen. We’ll fight to prevent insurance companies from withholding the money you truly deserve. 

Defective Products

Some of the millions of products in the marketplace are defective and cause significant harm to consumers. Because of the nature of many of these products, burn injuries are frequent and severe. 

For instance, products with lithium batteries, which include many products for sale at Town Center Mall, are known to cause fires. The same holds true for vehicles, like boats, cars, and ATVs, which use gas.

If a defective product burns you, many parties may be liable, including the following:

• Designer
• Manufacturer
• Distributor
• Retailer

As a consumer, you have the right to be free from the risk of harm by a dangerous product. This right is so powerful that the law in Georgia allows victims to hold product makers strictly liable, meaning you may not have to prove negligence in your case.

Work Injuries

As mentioned above, work injuries are typically covered by workers’ comp insurance. However, there are instances when a burn injury victim can sue for full damages. One of these instances involves third parties, who are anyone outside of a certain workplace. If a third party injures you while you are at work, you can sue that third party.

Common third parties include:

• Clients and customers
• The general public
• Independent contractors
• Product makers
• Employees from other companies
• Property owners

Our work injury lawyers will review your case to identify if any third parties were involved in your accident. If there were, you can count on our team to pursue damages. 

Scalding Food and Drink

From hot coffee to scalding pizza, consumers are continually at risk of being burned in the food service industry. The only thing preventing disaster is the safety measures companies in the industry must take. Sadly, lapses do happen, and customers are burned by unreasonably hot food and beverages on a regular basis. 

Apartment and Hotel Fires

Residential and hotel fires are extremely dangerous to many. Negligent and reckless property owners fail to provide proper safety measures, such as:

• Fire detectors
• Smoke alarms
• Proper egress from the dwelling unit
• Properly working exits 
• Proper signage

With one mistake, hundreds or even thousands of lives may be put in danger unnecessarily. Our attorneys and investigators perform thorough site investigations after hotel and apartment fires. We work tirelessly until we identify liable parties and make them pay. 

Statute of Limitations

If you are suffering pain and losses from a burn injury caused by someone else, you must act with haste to ensure you don’t lose your right to compensation. Two years after a burn injury, you will no longer have the legal authority to sue for damages. 

As a burn injury victim, you need access to extensive funds for treatment and lost wages. We’ll fight to get you what you need the moment we take your case. 

Here to Fight for You

If you have suffered a burn injury because of someone else, Kaufman Injury Law is here to help you pursue the compensation you deserve. You may be entitled to substantial compensation, so call our team to review your case at no charge and learn how Kaufman Injury Law can help.