Over the course of years, our team has dealt with a wide variety of cases involving brain injury. We know the way the law works, and we take the field with the clear intention to win. When faced with the loss of large sums of money, you can expect insurance companies and organizations to fight back. Steinbrecher & Associates has a near perfect record of success in fighting these defense teams. Justice is your right, and it is what we serve.

Here are two recent cases that underscore our competence in the area of burn injury; Serrano/Zaldana v. Thoro-Matic and Williams v. GAF Corp.

In the first case, Serrano/Zaldana v. Thoro-Matic our clients, Hispanic laborers, were told by their employer to remove tile glue from a cement floor. They used a chemical to loosen the glue. The final step was the use of a Thoro-Matic floor machine that warned in English only that the machine sparked and could cause an explosion if used with flammable chemicals. Our clients could not read or understand the yellow warning label on the machine. They poured flammable Acetone on the floor of a small room and then turned the Thoro-Matic machine on. The machine caused the vapors to explode, burning both of them. A product liability lawsuit was brought against the manufacturer for failing to provide universal warning, such as a pictogram, to warn of the risk of explosion from sparking. The mechanical start switches, which sparked, should have been replaced with solid-state switches that did not spark. The lawsuit was settled before trial for the policy limits of $2,000,000 from the machine manufacturer and $100,000 from the retail store.

In the second case, Williams v. GAF Corp. Oscar Williams drove an asphalt-filled tanker truck. He pulled into GAF's facility to offload hot asphalt. He climbed up on the truck in the rain to crack the dome lid so that the tanker could unload easily. Suddenly there was a huge explosion of hot asphalt shooting out of the top of the tanker truck dome showering Oscar, causing severe burn injuries. A year after the accident Oscar died from lung cancer. GAF claimed that the lung cancer was caused by a long history of smoking. Plaintiff proved through various experts that the lung cancer was probably the result of inhalation and absorption of hot asphalt which contained toxic chemicals. The case settled prior to trial for $1,150,000.

We understand you may have many questions about how cases proceed to trial, and what demands might be placed on you should you yourself have to appear in court. Contact us and we can help inform you on these matters or click here to check out more of our cases and to see what we have done for others in your situation. We know you'll be impressed. Thank you.