Legionnaires Disease Lawyers
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What is Legionnaires' disease?
Legionnaires' disease is caused by a type of bacteria called Legionella. Each year, between 8,000 and 18,000 people are hospitalized with Legionnaires' disease in the U.S. Symptoms of Legionnaire’s disease are typical of symptoms of pneumonia and can include high fever, chills, cough, muscle aches and headaches. These symptoms generally appear 2 to 14 days after being exposed to the bacteria. Legionnaire’s disease can cause death in up to 5% to 30% of cases.
How does someone contract Legionnaire’s?
The Legionella bacteria are found naturally in the environment, usually in water. The bacteria grow best in warm water, like the kind found in hot tubs, cooling towers, hot water tanks, large plumbing systems, or parts of the air-conditioning systems of large buildings.
The disease often occurs in hospitals, cruise ships, and air-conditioned hotels, all of which can have air or plumbing systems that breed bacterial infection. A person will generally contract the disease by breathing in the contaminated water in the form of mist or vapor. Unfortunately, people are more susceptible to contracting the disease if they are older and/or have weakened immune systems.
I/My family member has recently contracted Legionnaire’s disease. What can I do?
If you or a loved one have recently suffered injury or death as a result of Legionnaire’s disease, you may have a claim for your injuries/loss. If you sustained the illness while a patient in a hospital, traveling on a cruise ship, attending a facility with a whirlpool, sauna, steam room, while staying at a hotel, or from another source, you may be able to recover money damages for your injuries/loss. A claim for damages is based on the obligation of a property owner to maintain and monitor the water system to keep it free from bacteria. If the property owner fails to monitor the water system, it may be held responsible for your injury.
To learn more information about Legionnaire’s disease, check out the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website http://www.cdc.gov/legionella/patient_facts.htm.
Who Is Frier Levitt And What Can Frier Levitt Do To Help Me?
Frier & Levitt, LLC is a law firm that successfully represents customers in lawsuits and arbitrations before the Superior Courts of New Jersey and New York, as well as the Appellate Divisions.
At Frier & Levitt, LLC, it is our goal to provide you with superior legal representation and personal attention. Upon engaging us, we will immediately devise and begin to implement the most expeditious and cost-effective strategy to obtain money damages for your injuries. We will keep you informed every step of the way as we work together to achieve success.
Frier & Levitt, LLC welcomes the opportunity to be of service to you. We can represent you on a contingency basis. This means that we only get paid if we get you money. By agreeing to allow us to represent you on a contingency basis, you do not have to incur any up-front attorneys’ fees to obtain money damages.
The law firm of Frier Levitt, LLC successfully represents individuals who have been injured and families of individual who have died as a result of the negligence of others. We have obtained significant results for clients in New York and New Jersey and work hard to obtain these results.
For more information about whether you have a claim for injuries and/or wrongful death of a family member, or to discuss how Frier Levitt, LLC can assist you in obtaining legal relief, please feel free to call us at (973) 618-1660, or toll-free at (888) LEVITT1 (i.e., 888-538-4881).