Southern California Wrongful Death Attorneys

BIREN/KATZMAN'S Attorneys Have Proven Success Handling Wrongful Death Cases

People die in accidents every day. Often, those deaths should not have occurred - they happened because of someone else's carelessness or negligence, or because of a defective product, or as a result of some other form of wrongdoing. The families of people who have been wrongfully killed have a right to seek compensation from the person or entity causing the death of their loved one; compensation not only for the economic losses resulting from their loved one's death, but more importantly for the loss of care, comfort and society.

There are an infinite number of ways that people can be wrongfully killed. Often times, the liability issues involved in wrongful death cases are extremely complex. If your family member has died and you think that their death might have been wrongfully caused by someone, you should contact the law office of BIREN/KATZMAN for a free consultation.

Our Southern California wrongful death attorneys  have considerable experience handling all types of wrongful death cases and have developed handling techniques designed to maximize our clients' recoveries in such cases. For example:

• Liability Disputes - BIREN/KATZMAN has proven liability in wrongful death cases where it initially appeared that no one did anything wrong to cause the death. We accomplished this by extraordinarily thorough investigation, complex accident reconstructions with the best engineers and experts and high tech tools, such as computer modeling.
  
  
• Examples of Wrongful Death Cases - By far the most common way that people are wrongfully killed is in vehicular accidents. People also die in airplane, boating and train accidents Sometimes deaths in these kinds of cases, like many deaths in industrial or construction accidents are caused by defective products. Other examples of ways that people die are in drownings or other type of accidents caused by dangerous premises, such as amusement parks with dangerous rides and even as a result of nursing home negligence or Maximizing Damages - It isn't enough to establish liability in a wrongful death case, the outcome of a client's case also depends on proving the full extent of damages. BIREN/KATZMAN knows how to find the best economists who can quantify the monetary losses resulting from a wrongful death. Even more importantly, BIREN/KATZMAN has been able to obtain tremendous recoveries for the families of persons who were wrongfully killed by focusing on the human impact of the losses, as well as the financial damage. We at BIREN/KATZMAN know how to present damages to juries in a way that makes them feel our client's loss.
  
  
• 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 wrongful death lawyers at BIREN/KATZMAN have achieved extraordinary success in wrongful death cases, including:

• In one of our most notable motor vehicle accident cases, Matthew B.F. Biren and an accident reconstruction engineer were able to convince a jury that, contrary to eyewitness accounts and first appearances at the accident scene, our client's pickup truck had not crossed into oncoming traffic, but rather the truck driven by the defendant had wandered into his lane, clipping his truck and starting the reaction that ultimately led to his tragic death. The jury awarded this 61 year old man's family (wife and adult children) $4,500,000. Because the defendant's insurer had committed bad faith by failing to settle the claim for the defendant's $750,000 insurance limits, the policy was opened and the plaintiffs were able to recover $millions more than the defendant was insured for.
  
  
• The family of a worker who was killed and another worker who sustained brain damage in an accident that occurred because of a defectively designed wheel on a piece of mining equipment were compensated $millions.
  
  
• Two missionaries were involved in a tragic automobile accident shortly before moving to India The wife was killed The husband, who sustained a head injury received a settlement of $2.7 million.
  
  
• The family of a young girl who drowned in a sandy bottom wave pool at a water park recovered $1.5 million damages; an unprecedented amount for a child's death at the time of the settlement.

If your family is suffering from the wrongful death of a loved one, you should contact the office of BIREN/KATZMAN to schedule a free initial consultation to review your case. Your consultation is free. Your recovery could begin today.

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