The executor or administrator of an estate may bring a cause of
action on behalf of the beneficiaries of the estate.
Not exact matches
Tuomi's husband and the administrator
of her estate filed a wrongful death lawsuit
on behalf of her
beneficiaries and a survival
action against Extendicare and Kendric Manor.
This decision is the first successful case in British Columbia where a
beneficiary or intestate successor has been granted leave, based
on necessity alone, to bring an
action on behalf of an estate to sue for a resulting trust over a property that was transfered by the deceased before death.
The Act states that «it is not a defense that the death was caused in whole or in part by the contributory negligence
of one or more
of the
beneficiaries on behalf of whom the
action is brought, but the amount
of damages given shall be reduced...» 740 ILCS 180/2 (g).
Dell» Aniello moved for authorization to institute a class
action,
on behalf of all the
beneficiaries of the plan, in order to challenge the validity
of the amendment.
This lack
of knowledge did not mean merely that they were ignorant
of having a cause
of action in negligence against the solicitors; more fundamentally and more relevantly, they did not know that they (
on behalf of the
beneficiaries) had suffered any damage at all.