Sentences with phrase «death statute allows»

California's wrongful death statute allows certain surviving family members to bring a legal action against a person or party that negligently causes the death of a loved one.

When such an accident results in the death of an innocent bystander, Lincoln's wrongful death statute allows for the family of the victim to pursue a wrongful death claim on behalf of the deceased.

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«Both of these statutes allow for the animal welfare professionals to step in before an animal experiences unnecessary suffering or even death,» Wood said.

These statutes list the proper litigants allowed to file suit in a wrongful death, including survivors such as spouses, children, parents and siblings among others.

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.

Section 411.130 of the Kentucky Revised Statutes allows punitive damages to be awarded in wrongful death cases if the act that resulted in the death was either willful or the result of gross negligence.

Even compensation for pain and suffering before the victim's death isn't allowed by an applicable statute, but there are other alternatives for recovery.

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.

The substantive issue for consideration here, one of first impression for this Court, is whether the recovery - enabling provision of the statute in question allows the fatally injured party's estate to recover damages for the loss of income he or she could have earned had death not occurred.

He has played a key role in advocacy efforts to limit the death penalty, helping to enact one North Carolina statute barring the death penalty for persons with intellectual disabilities and another that allowed death row prisoners to present statistical disparities and other evidence to show that race played an impermissible role in their cases.

Several states, including Indiana, have passed statutes allowing wrongful death claims for unborn children at various stages of gestation, and courts in other states have recognized causes of action related to fetal death.

This will allow us to obtain and preserve evidence that will be used to support your claim within the time allotted by the wrongful death statute of limitations.