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Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Claims

Atlanta Lawyers Seeking Justice for Serious Injury and Wrongful Death

While our firm focuses on personal injury and wrongful death cases, we are not a personal injury mill. We do not handle a large volume of personal injury cases. Nor do we seek to settle claims as quickly as possible. Instead, we represent individuals and families who have legitimate, serious claims involving brain injury, spinal cord injury, severe burns and other catastrophic injury. The attorneys at our firm are prepared to take the time needed, and do the work required, to obtain the best results possible for our clients.

Call us toll free at 1.800.233.4086 or contact us online to discuss your personal injury or wrongful death claim with a nationally recognized lawyer.

We Understand What You're Going Through

At Butler, Wooten & Fryhofer, we know the challenges created by serious injury or needless death. Attorney Jim Butler was 17 when the Corvair he was driving ran off the road and hit a telephone pole. Jim suspects that the car was defective and a carbon monoxide leak caused him to black out. He sustained serious injuries, including a broken hip and shattered nose. He knows firsthand what it is like to be hurt in a bad car accident and survive.

All of the attorneys at our firm are sensitive to the needs of our clients and are capable of handling almost any type of injury, product liability or accident litigation. Whether you need legal help to hold a careless car manufacturer responsible for severe burns caused by a defective fuel tank, or you want justice for loss of life caused by a drunk driver we can help.

We handle a wide variety of injury and death claims, ranging from consumer rights and toxic chemicals to claims for work injuries and illness caused by tainted peanuts or contaminated food. We are real trial lawyers with the skills and experience needed to obtain full justice for real people.

Seeking Full Compensation for Your Losses

If you have been hurt in a car accident, or a loved one died in a construction accident, you know that no amount of money can ever make up for the tremendous losses caused by a serious personal injury or preventable death. Some losses such as medical bills, lost income, and other financial damages can be calculated in dollars and cents. However, it is almost impossible to put a dollar value on the human suffering caused by a life-changing spinal cord or brain injury or the death of a family member.

The attorneys at Butler, Wooten & Fryhofer work with forensic accountants, life care planners, medical experts and other professionals to document and quantify damages in personal injury claims. We seek full compensation for all losses, including:

  • Past and future medical and rehabilitation expenses
  • Loss of wages, income and benefits over a lifetime
  • Pain, suffering and disability
  • Inability to perform activities due to the injury
  • Loss of enjoyment of life
  • Emotional distress and depression related to the injury

You can explore some of our verdicts and settlements in personal injury and wrongful death cases for an example of the many types of cases we have handled.

If you or a loved one has suffered a serious injury, please contact us. We would be happy to supply references from personal injury clients whose cases we have handled in the past.
Success Stories

$17,716,401 Verdict / Auto Product Liability / Ford Explorer Rear Restraint System / Lap Only Seat Belt

12/18/2009 Wheeler v. Ford Motor Company, et al., State Court, Clayton County, Georgia.

Plaintiffs Lynn and Douglas Wheeler won their design defect and failure to warn claims against Ford Motor Company relating to the 2002 Ford Explorer. On Christmas morning 2005, 58 year old Lynn Wheeler was on her way to church with her family. Lynn Wheeler was seated in the rear center seat of her son’s 2002 Ford Explorer, wearing the lap-only seat belt Ford installed for that seating position. Two of Lynn Wheeler’s grandchildren were in child seats on either side of her. As they entered a curve on Noah’s Ark Road, a 2-door Eagle Talon coupe driven by John C. Stanley crossed the centerline and struck the Explorer head-on.

$5,470,000 Verdict/Wrongful Death

10/23/09 Pitts v. A&G Trucking. Inc., et al., State Court of DeKalb County, Georgia.

Plaintiffs, four minor children, recovered for the death of their father, who was killed by a dump truck driver while the decedent was working as a "spotter" or "flag man" on the runway expansion at Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport. According to eye-witnesses, the driver of the dump truck was talking on her cell phone or CB radio and was given a stop signal by the deceased.

$45,000,000 Settlement | Credit Insurance/Consumer Rights Class Action

10/31/07 Toole v. J.M.I.C. Life Insurance Company, Superior Court of Muscogee County, Georgia

Plaintiff Toole represented a class of people who prepaid J.M.I.C. Life Insurance Company premiums for credit life and disability insurance policies when they purchased vehicles. J.M.I.C. Life Insurance Company contractually promised to refund any unearned premium if class members paid off the insured loans before the five-year term had expired, but failed to do so when they paid off the insured loans early.

$105,500,000 Verdict | Defective Automobile

11/23/04 Flax v. Daimler Chrysler Corporation and Louis A. Stockell, Jr., Circuit Court for Davidson County, Tennessee

More Verdicts

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With offices in Atlanta and Columbus, Georgia, the attorneys at Butler, Wooten & Fryhofer, LLP represent the seriously injured throughout Georgia, including the cities of Atlanta, Columbus, Marietta, Smyrna, Roswell, Gainesville, Peachtree City, Forest Park, Riverdale, Lagrange, Macon, and Savannah. Our lawyers have handled accident and defective product claims nationwide, including Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia and Wyoming.