Thanks all for the thoughts for Mom and Dad. Don't know if there's a products liablity here. It's property damage that insurance will cover so it would cost more to pursue than you could recover from it. I think the scariest part is it was just an ordinary floor lamp. And pop, out of nowhere- flames. Anyway we are all thankful that it wasn't much worse. And since some of the people effected by the flood here still aren't back in their damaged homes, a few days is nothing