Lipson v. Superior Court

Opinion

BIRD, C. J.

This case presents questions concerning the parameters of the common law fireman’s rule. The primary issue is whether the rule precludes a fireman, injured in the line of duty, from recovering damages from a party whose negligent or intentional misrepresentation of the nature of an emergency at a chemical manufacturing plant proximately caused the injury. Also at issue is whether the rule bars a fireman’s strict liability claim for damages for injuries proximately caused by a party’s maintenance of an ultrahazardous activity on the premises at which a fire, or other…