Plauché Maselli Parkerson offers its clients a team of experienced fire litigation professionals to expertly navigate this complex and rapidly-evolving area of the law.
Our attorneys are familiar with the formalized fire investigation procedures (NFPA 921), the strenuous requirements for admissibility of expert testimony under Daubert/Kumho and the specter of spoliation sanctions. We get to work early in these cases and assist our clients at every step in the litigation, including:
- Retention of experts;
- Origin and cause investigation of the fire scene;
- Identifying parties for third-party practice or subrogation potential;
- Defending or examining fire experts at discovery depositions or trials;
- Analyzing and advocating challenges to the admissibility of fire experts' evidence and testimony;
- Evaluating spoliation sanctions for the destruction of evidence, and
- Presenting and defending fire cause, origin, and spread theories in mediations and trials.