Our firm does not litigate fire cases based on a class action model and would not recommend such a model for any fire victim for several reasons: Class Actions mean lower settlement recoveries. Class action models do not maximize case value and do not account for the unique losses of each case. While the cause of fire victims’ losses is the same (the fire), everyone experiences different and varying types of losses. Maximizing the value of each case’s losses is costly and time-consuming for law firms but is critically important to yield as high a recovery as possible. Class action models homogenize losses across similarly situated plaintiffs and generalize their recovery instead of determining the highest value for each unique case and seeking top dollar. Class Actions mean less control over your case. In a class action, a class representative is appointed to make decisions on behalf of everyone in the class, including decisions about settlement, thereby depriving individuals of their ability to control their own case. In a mass tort model, each case is separate and independent from every other case. As a result, individuals are in the driver’s seat of their cases and get to make the critical decisions such as whether or not to settle and in what amount to settle