If you or someone you love suffered a serious burn in Beverly Hills, you may be able to recover compensation from whoever caused it. That could be a negligent landlord after an apartment fire, the manufacturer of a defective product, an employer, or an at-fault driver.
The Injury Partners represents burn victims and their families throughout Beverly Hills and Los Angeles County. Founding attorney Omeed Hakimianpour, a Super Lawyers® Rising Stars honoree in 2025 and 2026 and a former Kirkland & Ellis attorney, works alongside co-founder Daniel Sabet on every case personally.
California gives you two years to file under CCP § 335.1, and only six months for claims against a public entity, but the sooner you file, the stronger your case will be. Call
(310) 220-0066 for a
free 24/7 consultation. Remember, you pay nothing unless we win.
Beverly Hills Burn Injury Attorney Serving 90210 and Los Angeles County
The burn injury lawyers at The Injury Partners represent victims and their families throughout Beverly Hills, the 90210 zip code, and all of Los Angeles County. Our office at 499 N. Canon Dr., Suite B1 is open to you 24 hours a day, and an attorney will take your call.
Beverly Hills holds its properties to high standards, but the city still carries real burn risks. Older residential buildings with aging electrical systems sit alongside luxury homes with high-output gas kitchens. Restaurants and boutiques throughout the Golden Triangle create commercial fire hazards, and construction sites bring welding, chemicals, and electrical work into residential neighborhoods.
Faulty wiring, gas leaks, defective appliances, water heaters set too high, and unmaintained fire-suppression systems cause serious burns even in well-kept buildings. A single overlooked hazard is enough to change a life.
Serious burns in Los Angeles County are treated at specialized facilities including the Grossman Burn Center, the LA County+USC Regional Burn Center, UCLA Health, and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Your treatment records from these centers become central evidence in your claim.
The LA County Fire Department and the Beverly Hills Fire Department investigate fires within the city, and their origin-and-cause reports often determine who is held responsible. Burn cases arising in Beverly Hills are heard at the Beverly Hills Courthouse and Los Angeles Superior Court.
If you were burned because someone else was careless, call
(310) 220-0066.
What Should I Do After a Burn Injury in Beverly Hills?
Get immediate medical care, because burns worsen over the first 24 to 48 hours and are highly prone to infection. Treatment at an emergency room or a specialized burn center is your first priority. Then take these steps:
- Go to a burn center if the burn is serious. The Grossman Burn Center and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center both treat severe burns. Burns to the face, hands, feet, or joints need specialized evaluation regardless of size.
- Report the incident and obtain the fire department or police report, which often establishes the origin and cause of the fire.
- Photograph the injury, the scene, and the cause, capturing the appliance, the wiring, the product, or the vehicle involved before anything is cleaned up or hauled away.
- Preserve the product or item that caused the burn, because a defective heater, battery, or appliance is the single most important piece of evidence in a product-liability claim. Do not let it be thrown out, returned, or repaired.
- Get witness contact information while people are still on scene.
- Do not give a recorded statement to any insurance company, and do not accept a quick settlement offer before you know the full extent of your injuries.
- Call an attorney early, before the scene is cleaned and the evidence is gone.
Why Trust The Injury Partners for Your Beverly Hills Burn Injury Case
Every client works directly with a founding attorney. You will never be routed to a call center, handed to a case manager, or left waiting for a callback from someone who has not read your file.
Omeed Hakimianpour earned the Super Lawyers® Rising Stars distinction in 2025 and 2026, a recognition given to only the top 2.5% of attorneys in California. He is a graduate of UCLA and USC Gould School of Law, and he trained at Kirkland & Ellis, where he handled multimillion- and billion-dollar transactions.
He brings that same discipline to burn cases, where proving the full lifetime cost of an injury requires the kind of rigor most firms reserve for corporate work.
Co-founder Daniel Sabet completed the SCALE accelerated J.D. program at Southwestern Law School in two years, and his career has been built on representing accident victims.
Burn claims require a catastrophic injury attorney, not a standard personal injury workup. Insurers and manufacturers in these cases are well funded and well represented.
The Injury Partners has recovered over $1.5M for clients, maintains a 5.00 Google rating, and works on a contingency-fee basis.
What Makes The Injury Partners Different in Burn Injury Cases?
We build the full lifetime picture of what your injury will cost. Most personal injury lawyers calculate your medical bills to date, add a multiplier for pain and suffering, and call that a demand. Burn injuries do not work that way. The surgeries, the wound care, the therapy, and the scar revisions can continue for years. A settlement that ignores them leaves you paying for someone else’s negligence for the rest of your life.
We pursue every liable party because each one carries separate insurance, and we retain life-care planners, medical experts, and fire-origin specialists when your case needs them. And we are prepared to try your case rather than accept an offer that does not reflect what you actually lost.
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Types and Degrees of Burn Injuries
The depth of a burn and how much of the body it covers determine both the medical treatment required and the value of the legal claim. A small first-degree burn heals on its own. A deep burn across a large area can mean months in a burn unit, multiple surgeries, and permanent changes to how you live.
Doctors classify burns by degree, based on how far into the tissue the injury reaches.
| Degree |
Depth |
Typical Effects |
| First-degree |
Outer layer (epidermis) |
Redness and minor pain; usually heals without lasting harm |
| Second-degree |
Into the dermis |
Blistering, swelling, and significant pain; may leave scarring |
| Third-degree |
Full thickness |
Destroys all skin layers; often requires skin grafts; permanent damage |
| Fourth-degree |
Below the skin into muscle or bone |
Most severe; can require amputation and is life-threatening |
Burns are also classified by what caused them:
- Thermal and flame burns from fires, explosions, and contact with hot surfaces
- Scald burns from hot liquids, steam, or water heaters set above safe temperatures
- Chemical burns from cleaning agents, industrial substances, or pool chemicals
- Electrical burns from faulty wiring, exposed conductors, or contact with power sources
- Radiation burns from prolonged exposure to radiation sources
- Inhalation injuries from breathing smoke, superheated air, or toxic fumes during a fire
Beyond depth, doctors measure how much of the body is affected using Total Body Surface Area, or TBSA. The American Burn Association’s rule of nines assigns a percentage to each body region. The head is 9%, each arm is 9%, the front torso is 18%, the back torso is 18%, and each leg is 18%.
Only second-degree burns and deeper count toward TBSA, and larger, deeper burns generally require more extensive treatment and produce higher case values.
What Are the Four Degrees of Burns?
Burns are classified into four degrees based on how deeply they penetrate the skin, as shown in the table above. One detail the classification does not capture: third-degree burns often feel numb, because the nerve endings themselves are destroyed. A burn that does not hurt can be the most serious kind.
Second-degree burns and above generally warrant a conversation with an attorney. Once scarring and long-term treatment enter the picture, the cost of the injury extends well past the initial hospital bill.
Common Causes of Burn Injuries and Who Is Liable
Identifying what caused your burn is what determines who is legally responsible, and it is the first thing a fire injury lawyer investigates. Burn cases frequently involve more than one liable party, and each party carries its own insurance coverage. Finding all of them often separates a settlement that covers your first year of treatment from one that covers your lifetime of it.
| Common Cause |
Typically Liable Party |
Legal Theory |
| Apartment or residential fire (faulty wiring, no working smoke detectors) |
Landlord or property owner |
Premises liability; habitability violations |
| Defective product (appliance, battery, heater, e-cigarette) |
Manufacturer or seller |
Product liability (design defect, manufacturing defect, failure to warn) |
| Car accident or post-collision fuel-fed fire |
At-fault driver and/or automaker |
Negligence; vehicle product liability |
| Workplace, construction, or restaurant burn |
Employer, plus possibly a third party |
Workers’ compensation plus third-party negligence |
| Chemical exposure or gas explosion |
Property owner, contractor, or manufacturer |
Negligence; product liability; punitive damages under Civil Code § 3294 where conduct was grossly negligent |
Vehicle fires. A post-collision fire can produce a claim against the at-fault driver and a separate claim against the automaker. A defective fuel system or battery pack that allowed the fire to spread creates manufacturer liability. Our
car accident lawyers in Beverly Hills handle these claims, and lithium-ion battery fires in electric vehicles raise the additional product-liability questions our
electric car accident lawyers address.
Workplace burns. Cal/OSHA sets safety standards for burn hazards on job sites, in kitchens, and in industrial settings. A violation does not automatically create a lawsuit, but it is strong evidence of negligence.
Defective products. The Consumer Product Safety Commission tracks recalls for appliances, heaters, and lithium-ion batteries. A prior recall or a pattern of complaints strengthens a product-liability claim considerably.
Can I Sue My Landlord or a Product Manufacturer for a Burn Injury?
Yes, when their negligence caused the fire or the burn.
Landlords
California Civil Code § 1941.1 requires rental properties to be habitable. Health & Safety Code § 13113.7 requires working smoke alarms in every bedroom, outside every sleeping area, and on every level of a dwelling. Landlords must ensure those alarms are operable when a tenancy begins and must repair them when a tenant reports a problem.
The duty extends further than smoke detectors. A landlord is also responsible for safe electrical wiring, maintained gas lines and appliances, water heaters set to safe temperatures, and unobstructed fire exits. When a landlord ignores a known hazard or a written repair request and a fire follows, that failure supports a premises-liability claim.
Manufacturers
A product-liability claim does not require you to prove the manufacturer was careless. Under California law, a manufacturer is liable if the product had a design defect, a manufacturing defect, or a failure to warn. You need only show that the defect caused your injury.
Workplace Burns
If you were burned at work, you almost certainly have a workers’ compensation claim. That system is no-fault, and it will cover medical treatment and a portion of lost wages.
But workers’ comp does not pay for pain and suffering, and it caps what you can recover. If a party other than your employer contributed to the burn, you can file a separate third-party lawsuit for the full range of damages. That might be the maker of a defective machine or a negligent contractor on the site.
What Compensation Can You Recover for a Burn Injury?
Burns are among the most expensive injuries in personal injury law, and a third-degree burn requiring skin grafts can generate costs that continue for decades. A settlement that only covers the bills you have received so far is not full compensation. It is a down payment on an injury that will keep asking for more.
Economic damages:
- Emergency care and hospitalization
- Skin grafts, debridement, and reconstructive surgery
- Cosmetic and scar-revision procedures
- Lifelong wound care and pain management
- Physical therapy and occupational therapy
- Psychological counseling
- Lost wages during recovery
- Diminished earning capacity if you cannot return to the work you did before
- A life-care plan projecting the cost of future medical needs
Non-economic damages:
- Pain and suffering, which California does not cap in personal injury cases
- Permanent scarring and disfigurement, treated as a distinct and substantial category of harm
- Emotional distress
- PTSD, anxiety, and depression
- Loss of enjoyment of life
- Loss of consortium
Punitive damages may also be available under California Civil Code § 3294 when the conduct that caused your burn was grossly negligent or intentional. Consider a landlord who ignored repeated written warnings about exposed wiring, or a manufacturer who sold a product it knew could catch fire. Either may face punitive damages on top of everything else.
If a fire or burn was fatal, surviving family members may pursue a claim through a
wrongful death lawyer in Beverly Hills.
California follows pure comparative negligence under Li v. Yellow Cab Co. (1975), which means partial fault reduces your recovery but does not bar it. The deadlines are strict. You have two years to file under CCP § 335.1 and only six months for a claim against a public entity under Gov. Code § 911.2. Workers’ compensation claims carry their own separate deadlines.
How Much Is a Burn Injury Claim Worth in California?
There is no reliable average, and any burn accident attorney who gives you a number before reviewing your medical records is guessing. The value of a burn claim depends on the degree of the burn, how much of your body it covers, and how permanent the damage is.
Scarring and disfigurement carry substantial weight, particularly when the burn affects the face, hands, or another visible area. Lifetime medical needs weigh heavily, which is why a life-care plan projecting your future surgeries, therapy, and care is often the single most valuable document in a burn case. Lost earning capacity, the number of liable parties, how much insurance coverage each one carries, and your share of comparative fault all factor into the final number.
The only way to understand what your case is worth is to have someone look at it. Call
(310) 220-0066 for a free consultation.
Speak With a Beverly Hills Burn Injury Attorney at The Injury Partners Today
A burn injury does not end when you leave the hospital, and the compensation you recover has to last as long as the injury does. That means someone has to prove what the next twenty years will cost, not just what the last twenty days did.
The Injury Partners finds every party responsible for your burn, builds the full lifetime picture of your care with life-care planners and medical experts, and holds each of them accountable. We do not send a demand letter and hope for the best. We prepare your case as though it is going to trial, because that is what gets insurers to take it seriously.
Evidence in burn cases has a short shelf life, because products get discarded, scenes get cleaned, and buildings get repaired. The deadlines are unforgiving, with two years to file most claims and only six months when a public entity is involved.
You will never pay out of pocket to hire our firm, and we only collect a fee if we recover compensation for you. Our team is available 24 hours a day, and you will speak directly with Omeed Hakimianpour or Daniel Sabet every time you call.
Contact The Injury Partners today at (310) 220-0066 or email info@theinjurypartners.com to
schedule your free consultation. Our office is at 499 N. Canon Dr., Suite B1, Beverly Hills, CA 90210.
You did not choose this injury. You do get to choose who fights for you.
