Smoke Inhalation, Burn & Fire Injury

Fire safety is too often overlooked by landlords and product manufacturers. When that happens, families and children pay the terrible price when fire erupts — in what should have been the safety of their home. All too often people suffer unnecessary and permanent, life-altering burn and fire injuries and even death.

All landlords are required by law to maintain safe property conditions. Product manufacturers, likewise, must ensure that consumer products are safe for their intended as well as expected use. When parties whom we entrust with our safety fail to live up to their responsibility, common causes for legal liability include: 

• Defective products — product liability
• Claims relating to faulty wiring 
• Failure to equip premises with working smoke and CO2 detectors 
• Failure to equip premises with sprinklers and other fire suppression systems 
• Failure to ensure available, clear means for evacuation, including fire escapes 
• Failure to equip premises with fire doors and barriers to protect building occupants from the spread of fire 

For more than three decades, Feldman Shepherd’s fire liability attorneys have investigated and pursued complex claims on behalf of victims of preventable fires. We are here to help you and your family recover for your pain and suffering, economic losses, emotional distress, and medical expenses. And we don’t stop there: We will also help you deal with your own insurance company and medical providers, and explain what you can expect at every juncture of your case. Cases vary, but our mission remains the same: to obtain the most substantial recovery possible for our clients. 

Our notable results include: 

• $36.5 million wrongful death settlement for the family of two victims who suffered extensive burn injuries when a propane cylinder exploded on a food truck. 
• $18.3 million settlement against the manufacturer of a portable electric heater that caused a fire in a Philadelphia rowhouse which resulted in two fatalities and catastrophic injuries to an infant. 
• $6.1 million settlement for the family of an 80-year-old man who died in an apartment fire caused by a gas explosion. 
• A confidential wrongful death settlement for the parents of two young boys who died in a house fire caused by a defective clothes dryer. 
• Multi-million-dollar recoveries for the families of firemen killed in the line of duty while fighting Philadelphia’s worst office building fire. 
• $10 million recovery for survivors of a fuel-fed fire in a minivan. 

Call us to learn how we can help you with your fire injury claim at (215) 398-1522.