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Wrongful death lawsuits allow families to recover damages and hold negligent parties accountable for their actions.

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When a car accident results in a person's death and a wrongful death lawsuit is likely, Texas law allows for the possibility of tolling the statute of limitations, or pausing the time limit in which a lawsuit must be filed.

One example given: A lawsuit uncovered a flaw in a Boston hospital's computer system that had allowed medical professionals to overdose a patient, resulting in her death.

Importantly, there is another law that authorizes a «survival action», which allows survivors to recover compensation for losses incurred by the decedent after the accident or incident took place — basically, it allows a personal injury lawsuit to survive the plaintiff's death.

If the death is based on medical malpractice that occurred more than two years before the death, then a lawsuit for wrongful death might not be allowed.

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In order to rectify this situation, states have passed wrongful death statutes creating a cause of action (a legal basis for a lawsuit) that allows certain family members of people who have been wrongfully killed to recover compensation for their losses.

While there is no legal remedy for the family's pain, the law allows the spouse or children of the deceased to seek monetary compensation through a wrongful death lawsuit.

In the tragic event of a death caused by negligence, only the closest living relatives of the person who passed away are allowed to file a personal injury lawsuit for wrongful death.

Wrongful Death Actions — These actions are brought under California Code of Civil Procedure § 377.60 and allow surviving family members such as spouses, siblings, parents, and children to bring a lawsuit in order to recover for their own losses.

D.C. Circuit allows federal death row inmate to intervene in lawsuit challenging the federal government's method of carrying out lethal injections and its failure to disclose its execution procedures: You can access today's ruling of a unanimous three - judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.

Massachusetts law allows the personal representative of the decedent's estate to bring a wrongful death lawsuit against the individual who caused the drunk driving accident.

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When a person is killed because of another person's neglect or a company's recklessness, Idaho law allows a lawsuit to be brought for wrongful death.

A Nebraska law allowing wrongful death claims for unborn children is getting its first test in a federal lawsuit.

Is there a certain percentage an attorney is allowed to charge a client for representing them in a wrongful death lawsuit?