About

Our California Wildfire Victims Lawyer team consists of attorneys, paralegals, fire investigators, a fire damage contractor and and a fire damage insurance claims expert with over 20 years experience. Our team is ready to help you and your family in every way possible. 

The team

• Attorney Michael Bomberger
• Attorney Steve Estey
• Attorney Jeff Bennion
• Attorney Mary Bajo Coletta
• Fire Damage Insurance Specialist Kim Apfeld
• Fire Damage Investigator Mike Soresi
• Fire Damage Contractor Tom

You and your family have survived the fire.  But what now?  Questions loom:  where to live? how to continue to work? how to file insurance? how to get through the process in general?  and, how to pay for it all? Your only job – but it is still a huge job — is to focus on the future, to recovering your world, to helping put back the pieces of your life, physically, emotionally, and financially.

Estey & Bomberger Can Help

A law firm is more than a building and a business, more, even, that the men and women that work there day-in and day-out.  If you choose wisely, a law firm is a partner and a mentor.  A group of people that work synergistically to lead your family through the mess because they’ve led many families through that same mess.

The people always make the difference, and the specialty makes the difference.  Though we have been around for 30 years, we choose to specialize in tragic accidents and devastating loss.  Not a fun specialty, of course, but we are good at what we do, and this specialty is necessary in today’s complicated, and dangerous, world.  Our knowing the ins-and-outs of this world means that clients don’t have to start at square one.

Our team is tenacious, and we’re also compassionate.  We have families, so we know how to treat your family right.  And we’ve got a list of successful results as long as aour thirty-year history.  We’re good at answering your questions, and we’re great at using the answers for your benefit.

The lawyers and staff at Estey & Bomberger have been investigating the northern California fires for weeks already, and they are deep in the trenches helping other families.  As the government works to investigate the fires and potential causes, our team is investigating as well, leaving no stone unturned as to how to get clients the most money, and the most closure, possible.  We are working with both businesses and families, both with insurance coverage and without insurance coverage.  Remember, it is so much more than just damaged property, there are significant costs associated with evacuation, lost business income, personal injuries and more.

Fires under investigation by Estey & Bomberger include:

• Atlas Fire
• Cherokee Fire
• Nuns Fire (merged with Norrbom fire, Adobe fire, Partrick fire, Pressley fire and Oakmont fire)
• Tubbs Fire

Our investigations are of course looking at Pacific Gas & Electric’s power lines and their management of the lines, but we are looking at other players as well.  We want to make sure we have a total picture, to come up with the best plan for our clients.

Insurance Helps But is Often Not Enough

Many homeowners and business owners have insurance, but regardless of how great the planning process was, insurance money may still not be enough to rebuild and regrow what you’ve lost, let alone the hours spent, the stress, and the loss of personal items with no “insurance” value.  Every family and business should consider whether legal action would be wise.

 A Deep Bench and Deep Pockets

 Estey & Bomberger has, in just the last five years, recovered over $200,000,000 for its clients.  That’s just the tip of the iceberg considering that this well-respected team has been working together since 1998, nearly 30 years.  We have all heard the phrase “we don’t get paid until you get paid” and nowhere is it more true than in this type of lawsuit.  Estey & Bomberger fronts the money – for everything.  We are truly invested in your success, and we have the funding to do so – in many cases lawsuits can cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.  In the unlikely event that we are not successful, you owe us nothing.

Call us today – we are ready to help you!