Sentences with phrase «include wrongful death actions»

These claims may include wrongful death actions based on motor vehicle accidents that were caused by city or state employees while they were driving for their jobs, for example.

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The Contractor indemnifies the Government and the vessel and its owners against all claims, demands, or causes of action to which the Government, the vessel or its owner (s) might be subject as a result of damage or injury (including death) to the property or person of anyone other than the Government or its employees, or the vessel or its owner, arising in whole or in part from the negligence or other wrongful act of the Contractor, or its agents or employees, or any subcontractor, or its agents or employees.

For each state, the collection identifies the applicable and relevant laws for actions related to nursing home injuries, including limitation and notice periods, and damage caps for both negligence and wrongful death suits.

With deep experience in product liability matters and class action litigation, including catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases, as well as consumer fraud, he represents national and international companies, including manufacturers of motor vehicles, power tools, pharmaceuticals, clothing, glass products, outdoor power equipment, and industrial machinery.

Nagel Rice is currently handling some of the highest profile cases in the country, including the carjacking wrongful death case against the Short Hills Mall, a cyberbullying suicide case against a New Jersey school district, a class action against the NFL for illegal ticket sales for Super Bowl XLVIII, and the multi-billion dollar RICO action against short selling hedge funds.

Since wrongful death actions are statutory, the courts that have addressed this issue find that only a legislature can include a cohabitant in the list of people who have a right to sue for wrongful death.

A wrongful death action brought by the decedent's estate administrator for the immediate family members can include:

Greg Kohn is a partner at Nagel Rice and specializes in complex civil litigation cases, including professional malpractice, personal injury, class actions, wrongful death, products liability, and commercial litigation.

The damages available in a wrongful death action in Texas include the following:

In wrongful death actions, damages including medical bills, funeral bills, lost lifetime earning capacity, and pain and suffering can be recovered.

In Illinois, the Illinois Wrongful Death Act allows victims to sue for a number of different actions that include police misconduct or use of deadly force.

Tim Mott is an associate in Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial's nationally - recognized Litigation Practice Group and has represented corporations, including Fortune 500 companies, and some of the largest insurance companies in the world in various cases, including catastrophic injury and wrongful death actions throughout the United States.

Steven V. Buckman practices in the field of insurance law litigating a variety of first - party and third - party actions including, but not limited to, bad faith, coverage questions, declaratory judgments, products liability, trucking insurance, fire and casualty, wrongful death, and catastrophic injury matters.

Matters of note include the coordination of multiparty defense in a wrongful death action arising from a construction accident, arbitration of a complex network agreement between healthcare organizations, and defense of class action cases brought by uninsured patients against a chain of hospitals.

We are experienced in handling and trying a wide range of cases, including wrongful death, automobile accidents, premises liability, business torts, complex coverage questions, subornation issues and declaratory judgment actions.

Examples of damages that are often successfully sought in California wrongful death actions include funeral expenses, loss of household services, loss of financial support, and loss of companionship.

«When the death of a person is caused by the wrongful act, negligence, default, or breach of contract or warranty of any person, including those occurring on navigable waters, and the event would have entitled the person injured to maintain an action and recover damages if death had not ensued, the person or watercraft that would have been liable in damages if death had not ensued shall be liable for damages as specified in this act notwithstanding the death of the person injured, although death was caused under circumstances constituting a felony.»

These include class action lawsuits involving tire defects and grave desecration, as well as wrongful death and white collar crime cases.

He routinely manages complex litigation, including catastrophic injury and wrongful death actions, and devotes a significant portion of his practice to commercial transportation and products liability claims.

General Motors hired Weil as coordination counsel after being sued in at least 22 different states at once; the lawsuits included both class actions and wrongful death cases.

In New Mexico, compensation for survivors in a wrongful death action often includes pain and suffering, lost earnings, loss of guidance, household services, loss of society and companionship, and the value of the decedent's life separate from his or her earning capacity (also known as hedonic damages).

In 2016, she led a team that successfully defended one of the largest mass tort / wrongful death cases in the United States, which included 12,000 cases (some of them class actions representing hundreds of individual plaintiffs).

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.

Skilled mediator and settlement judge with extensive experience in complex multi-party construction defect, insurance, environmental, securities, real estate, catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, and employment cases, including wage and hour class action matters

We handle all types of New Orleans injury cases, including slip and falls, medical malpractice, car accidents, wrongful death, class actions, and more.

Karen Conti has been a lawyer for 26 years, and is a member of the Illinois, California, and U.S., Supreme Court bars, She's handled numerous significant cases, including a successful United States Supreme Court appeal for the Cook County Democratic Party, the death row appeals of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, a reversal in the Illinois Supreme Court in an employment discrimination matter, and a wrongful arrest and injury action against the Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers.