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Catastrophic Fires & Burn Injuries |
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| Fires cause more deaths
in the U.S. than all natural disasters combined
annually. Often fires are the result of negligence,
defectively designed products or faulty building.
In 2006, the most current year with data from the
United States Fire Administration (USFA), 1.6 million
fires were reported with $11.3 billion in property
losses. |
| The national law firm
of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP
is currently representing clients who have been
harmed physically and financially by tragic fires
as the result of the negligence of another or from
a defective product. |
| The law in most states
provides individuals with legal claims and
the right to compensation for fire-related
injuries they suffer as a result of a defective
product or the negligence of another. Burn
survivors and other victims of fires may file
lawsuits seeking compensation for their pain
and suffering, medical expenses, lost past
and future wages and punitive damages. |
| Types of Fires |
| Residential house
fires account for 81% of fire-related deaths
and 79% of injuries in the U.S. (Data from
2006, the latest year with available data).
For a ten year period beginning in 1997, an
average of over 3,000 civilians were killed
and another 15,340 were injured annually as
the result of residential structure fires. |
| Residential structures fires encompass fires
that occur in places where people live such as
one- and two-family dwellings (including manufactured
homes), apartments, hotels, motels, college dormitories and boarding houses. |
| For more information about residential structure fires and burn injuries, click here. |
| Nonresidential structures
include educational, institutional, public
assembly, stores and offices, industry, utility,
defense, storage in structures, and other buildings
were people gather for school, work, entertainment
or other activities. |
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- Our lawyers
have years of experience successfully representing clients
in personal injury cases.
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is no charge or obligation for our review of your case.
- In death
and serious injury cases, we are pleased to visit you where
you live, at no cost, to discuss your legal rights and answer
your questions.
- We have
retained product safety and medical experts nationwide to
assist our clients with their claims.
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| While fire safety measures like overhead sprinklers
and fire stairwells have gone far in reducing deaths
and injuries from fires in non-residential buildings,
poor building management, hazardous work practices,
non-compliance with municipal fire codes or improper
action from emergency response personnel can still
place lives at risk. Learn more… |
| Vehicle fires can be started
by defective gas tanks which explode during collisions,
faulty cruise control switches which can spark
and various other causes but can easily spread
to homes or other structures, causing significant
property damage as well as severe danger to human
life. Learn more.... |
| Fires outdoors can spread
quickly, destroying wild habitats and farmland,
and even homes and businesses. Wildland-urban interface fires often result from the negligence of utility companies in failing to properly maintain power lines and adjacent vegetation, and are thus the direct result of another’s
negligence or failure to act. Learn more.... |
| There are many organizations in the United States
dedicated to helping burn survivors. Please visit
our resources for burn victims web page with links
to websites that have information relevant to individuals
and families of those who suffered burns and other
catastrophic fire injuries. |
| Fires are often complex events whose origins
and cause are difficult to determine. Because of
their destructive nature, fires consume the evidence
of their initiation and progress. But despite the
difficulties surrounding an investigation it is
often possible to for trained individuals to determine
the cause of a devastating fire. Learn more… |
| If you have been injured in a fire, please
click here to contact an experienced personal
injury attorney at Lieff Cabraser for a free, no obligation
review of your case. |
| Founded in 1972, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein,
LLP is an over fifty attorney
law firm with offices in San Francisco, New York and Nashville. For the last five years,
the National Law Journal has recognized Lieff Cabraser
as one of the top 20 plaintiffs’ law firms in America. |
| For our personal injury cases, we bring a team of experienced
lawyers. Each client is assigned an individual lawyer. In addition, we have
on staff multiple nurses, legal assistants, scientific analysts and case
clerks to assist the attorneys. To learn more about our firm, click
here. |
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About Lieff Cabraser: We have
offices in San Francisco, New York and Nashville. Our lawyers have
represented clients in personal injury, wrongful death and
rollover crashes and product defect lawsuits across America, including
residents of Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California,
Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho,
Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland,
Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, North
Dakota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada,
New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South
Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin,
West Virginia and Wyoming.
Among the cases our personal injury
attorneys are prosecuting are the Medtronic heart lead recall, the
AMO contact lens solution recall, the Peter Pan peanut butter recall, Guidant
pacemaker defects, SUV
rollover accidents, popcorn
workers lung injuries, and Ford
switch fires.
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