Wrongful Death

Losing a loved one due to the negligence or misconduct of another party is a profoundly distressing experience. While no compensation can replace the loss, it can alleviate the financial strain often associated with such tragedies. However, knowing how to navigate this complex legal landscape is crucial if you find yourself receiving a wrongful death […]

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Bearing a child is a mother’s pure moment of happiness, as she carried the baby for months and eventually see her child after meticulous care of herself. But, oftentimes, this isn’t the case as some things could go wrong for few factors. This blunders or natural occurrences could put the mother and the baby in danger in most cases and even pose the risk of permanent injury or disability and even death. Few cases of these events are result of medical malpractice.

In this blog, we have stipulated few steps to take when experiencing same narrative of this situation and how to file a legal claim and what conditions should be met before coming up to these with the hope of recovering damages through wrongful death and/or medical malpractice lawsuit.

There are almost 3 million deaths in U.S. recorded yearly according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s FastStats. In general, various diseases contribute to the significant numbers of death, this includes vast manifestations of cardiovascular diseases, neurological disorders, and mental disorders. Apart from these generalization, a specific yet major contributor of these deaths is different from previously mentioned as it is not a disease but a form of negligence of a person in charge of a duty such as road accidents, premises deaths, and some were medical malpractice, though few cases of these negligence didn’t cause direct death after occurrence but it has caused a victim to obtain a specific disease stemming from one of those negligence.

In road. there are multiple risks that show up once you take a step in the roads, this isn’t only applicable for vehicle users but as well as to the other road users such as pedestrians. Pedestrian accidents caused by external factors and even worse, negligence by drivers, has been an ongoing issue for most states with high population density and recently, cases of pedestrian accidents which involved deaths has skyrocketed in the past year which concerns authorities and agencies linked and responsible for the control of those occurrences.

There are few emotions that could overwhelm an individual, the whole family, or even the closest individuals following a car crash accident and likely left the victims involved in the crash confused and wonder what would be their next step and even worse mental and potential financial damage would be inflicted when someone has died. This specific case of death is legally called wrongful death, it is a claim filed against a person who can be held liable for a death of someone by a cause linked to negligence or malice. Its difference to manslaughter is that wrongful death is a civil case where the victim seeks compensation benefits for the people left behind while the previously mentioned is a criminal case wherein it punishes the culprit for the murder committed.

Legal litigation and the process itself is pretty confusing for starters and most of them may tend to commit bad decision and move such as giving bad statements and settling for lower claim value as a victim. That is the intricacy of civil litigation itself, and the addition of specification and identification of each case is confusing as the procedures as well. One type of legal case that is lumped with other case is wrongful death.

In U.S., huge numbers of daily death is recorded as in 2017, there are 7,708 deaths are recorded daily according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These deaths have various causes which are mainly: heart diseases, every form of cancer, car accidents, any health conditions, or even wrongful death.

Wrongful death is a type of legal action along with medical malpractice and personal injury claim, is a type of claim filed against a person who is proven to be liable of death of a certain someone who’s either a victim of medical malpractice or accident. The claim is commonly filed by close relatives or closest to heir of the deceased or according to their statute.

In U.S., as one of the nation that has large population per city, it also means about the large death records every year as well. As more than 2.8 million average number of deaths are recorded every year and in the last year, it has exponentially increased to more than 3.3 million total recorded deaths. These deaths has various reasons such as heart disease,all types of cancer, unintentional injuries, and medical malpractice and errors.

All of us experienced losing a loved one, it is painful and makes you ask a lot of question on why did it happen and very sudden. Especially losing someone in an accident, no money or material things can ever amend such devastating event. Families and people close to the dead victim are expected to suffer from just not only emotional damages and anguishes but as well as financial damages since funeral and burial expenses can stretch out family’s budget for such formalities. If you and your family suffer from a case of wrongful death, you are entitled and eligible for filing a wrongful death claim. The financial grant that this claim offers depending and scales based on damages declared by the family.