Can family members recover compensation for emotional distress when a loved one suffers catastrophic burns?

Can family members recover compensation for emotional distress when a loved one suffers catastrophic burns?

Georgia recognizes loss of consortium claims, which compensate a spouse for the loss of companionship, affection, and services resulting from a partner’s catastrophic injury. Parents and children may also have claims in appropriate circumstances. In wrongful death cases, the full value of the decedent’s life encompasses both the economic and the profoundly human loss to the surviving family.