Construction Accidents & Industrial Accidents

BIREN/KATZMAN'S Attorneys Successfully Handle All Types Of Industrial And Construction Accidents

There are an infinite number of ways that persons can be injured in industrial or construction settings. Industrial and construction accidents that cause serious / catastrophic personal injuries can present many complex issues. If you've been seriously injured as a result of an industrial or construction accident, you should contact the law office of BIREN/KATZMAN for a free consultation.

Our construction accident attorneys have developed handling techniques designed to maximize our clients' recoveries in industrial or construction accident cases. For example:

• Liability Disputes  - BIREN/KATZMAN has proven liability in cases where, on first blush, it appeared that our client or his/her employer, rather than conditions in the industrial or construction setting, might have caused the accident. We accomplished this by extraordinarily thorough investigation, complex accident reconstructions with the best experts and high tech tools, such as computer modeling.
  
  
• Examples of Construction and Industrial accidents - Sometimes it is obvious that a dangerous condition in a construction site or an industrial setting is responsible for an accident, such as where a scaffold being used by workmen collapses or an industrial boiler explodes. Other times, the fault is more subtle, such as toxic substances contaminating a workplace or a piece of equipment being improperly designed because the stop buttons are not accessible when an emergency occurs and a worker's health is dependent on being able to instantly cut power to the machine. The possibilities are infinite. BIREN/KATZMAN specializes in finding the negligence or dangerous condition that contributed to the cause of an accident where other lawyers cannot find fault.
  
  
• Products Liability - Sometimes the best claim is not against the persons or companies involved with the construction or industrial work, but rather against the manufacturer of a defective product that caused the construction or industrial accident. For example, some times catastrophic accidents in construction sites result more from the defective design of equipment, like cranes, rather than the conduct of the contractor. Other examples of dangerous products causing construction or industrial accidents include: defective ventilating systems, defective material handling equipment like forklifts, poorly designed machines like nail guns, corrugators, presses or conveyors etc.
  
  
• Maximizing damages - It isn't enough to establish liability, the outcome of a client's case also depends on proving the full extent of damages. BIREN/KATZMAN knows how to find the best medical experts who can not only diagnose and treat the most sophisticated injuries, but just as importantly can effectively communicate their findings. To maximize damages, it takes more than proving the injury. We work with economists (to establish the monetary losses of our clients), vocational rehabilitationists (to establish the impact of the injury on the client's earnings capacity), life care planners (to establish future care needs and the costs involved) and a host of other types of damage experts, all geared to maximizing our client's recoveries. Use of experts and creativity is especially important to demonstrate the full measure of damages in wrongful death cases.
  
  
• Team Approach / Principal Lawyer Handling - BIREN/KATZMAN is unique in that every case accepted by the firm is handled from start to finish by the firm's principals, Matthew B.F. Biren and Marc J. Katzman.  Every case is approached on a team basis where every member of the firm works on the case. This team approach involving hands-on involvement of the principal lawyers is much different than how most firms work, where the handling is basically done by an associate and the senior lawyers only get involved, if at all, in the later stages of the case. Our clients profit from this approach because they not only get the benefit of our senior lawyers' extensive experience and knowledge, but they also get the input from many people, which substantially increases the creative ideas generated about handling, which translates to better results.

Our lawyers at BIREN/KATZMAN Trial Lawyers have achieved extraordinary recoveries for clients injured in construction or industrial accidents, including:

• A sprinkler fitter recovered $650,000 for orthopaedic injuries sustained when he fell from a scissors lift during construction of a hotel.
  
  
• A man who suffered brain damage when he was asphyxiated as a result of argon gas that leaked from a defective boiler into a confined industrial workspace, settled for more than $2 million.
  
  
• Two millrights who sustained rotator cuff injuries when an Edison turbine exploded recovered more than $1 million.
  
  
• A group of battery plant workers recovered millions for lead poisoning sustained as a result of inadequate ventilation in their plant.

Serious construction and industrial accidents caused by dangerous premises often lead to catastrophic injuries, such as traumatic brain injuries or spinal cord injuries like paraplegia, quadriplegia or damaged cervical or lumbar discs. Some injuries are severe and immediately apparent, while others are more subtle and can only be diagnosed by specialists who are experienced in diagnosing traumatic injuries. Biren/Katzman understands traumatic injuries and knows the best medical specialists to help diagnose and treat our client's injuries, as well as maximize their recoveries.

Contact the office of BIREN/KATZMAN to schedule a free initial consultation to review your construction or industrial accident injury case. Your consultation is free. Your recovery could begin today.

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BIREN/KATZMAN Trial Lawyers
11911 San Vicente Boulevard, Suite 140
West Los Angeles, CA 90049

1-800-973-4969
310-476-3031 • FAX 310-471-3165

E-mail: BirenKatzman@Biren.com