Fire and Burn Injuries

Kirby & Holt - North Carolina Burn Injury Lawyers

If you or someone in your family has suffered the misfortune of receiving severe burns in a fire, electrocution, or explosion, contact a North Carolina burn injury attorney at Kirby & Holt in Raleigh.

One of our nurses, Ernest Grant, works with the North Carolina Burn Center in Chapel Hill. Ernest has been repeatedly honored for his more than 20 years of experience in working with burn victims. He received the Governor's Award of Excellence, the highest award given to a state employee; the North Carolina Nurse's Association Medical-Surgical Nurse of the Year Award; and the Helen Miller Award for Excellence in Nursing Leadership. Ernest was named a member of the Great 100, the 100 best nurses in North Carolina. And he received a national award from Nursing Spectrum magazine in being named 2002 Nurse of the Year, for which he was honored at the White House by the President.

Severe burns are generally acknowledged to be the most painful injuries that the human body can suffer. Less widely known is the continuing pain, difficulty, and hard work involved in recovering from severe burn injuries over a substantial portion of the body.

After the initial treatment period, when in many cases sheer survival is often in doubt, the victim may undergo a long sequence of hospitalizations, skin grafts, surgeries, and recoveries, which can often take years to complete. The psychological effects of the pain and discomfort, social isolation, and disfigurement can be especially debilitating. For children seriously injured in fires, the situation can be even worse - the sequence of surgeries can last as long as twenty years.

Our burn injury attorneys are committed to helping burn victims and their families with the long and painful recovery process in every way we can.

The North Carolina burn injury attorneys of Kirby & Holt understand that recovering from serious burns is a long process that will require extraordinary resources to cover the expenses of treatment, nursing care, rehabilitation, and repeated surgeries, and to provide as much as possible for the victim's comfort and emotional welfare. For further information about our experience with serious burn cases, contact the Raleigh burn injuries lawyers at Kirby & Holt.