$1.1M

Florida rental house-fire burn injury, building-code violations

Premises Liability

Jonah Flynn represented a tenant who was burned in a house fire caused by an electrical short in a power strip in the Florida panhandle. Jonah Flynn’s thorough origin and cause investigation, using nationally renowned experts, revealed that the home was not equipped with “hard-wired” working smoke detectors, in violation of local building codes, and was not equipped with sufficient, working windows from which to escape from sleeping quarters, violating NFPA 501.