The claimant left a pot cooking on her kitchen stove which caught fire. The victim believed that her fire alarm system would automatically call local fire officials as it had done in the past. She suffered burn injury when fire officials did not receive the automatic signal and she attempted to put the fire out by herself. Petrillo and Goldberg brought suit against her fire alarm company and telephone servicer which allegedly cut the fire alarm system’s automatic alarm connection to local authorities.

“Insurance companies get really nervous when an elderly claimant testifies in court because juries tend to like them so much. So we put such cases into suit as quickly as possible while exhausting all available settlement methods such as mediation or arbitration”