Sentences with phrase «of deceased victims»

Such victims and the family of the deceased victims should get monetary compensation to cover the economic loss sustained by them.

Carolyn has taken lead roles in multiple high profile litigations which resulted in change to industry standards and the establishment of charitable causes in memory of the deceased victims in the effort to avoid future harm to other individuals.

As aggressive Chicago personal injury trial lawyers, we advocate for injured adults, children and newborns, as well as the family members of deceased victims, throughout Illinois.

The role of the board is to evaluate financial compensation to victims or family members of deceased victims of violent crimes committed in the province of Ontario.

In a fatal helicopter crash, the family members of the deceased victims can seek compensation for wrongful death.

On top of all this, sweeping tort reform measures passed in Texas have made it virtually impossible for many survivors (as well as families of the deceased victims) to recover the compensation they're legally owed, even when their case is successful and a jury awards compensation.

A legal recourse for the surviving relatives of the deceased victims as well as the injured is to file a civil suit against the landowners who converted the building for a purpose to which it wasn't designed for.

In pedestrian accident cases in San Bernardino where negligence or wrongdoing is a factor, families of deceased victims can file what is known as a wrongful death claim seeking compensation for damages such as medical and funeral costs, lost future income, pain and suffering and loss of love and companionship.

Kashiya Biggs, 17, facing left, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, weeps with her friend, Lex Reynoso, 16, as the names of deceased victims are read during a candlelight vigil for the victims of the shooting at the school in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 15.

«We also collected DNA samples from the relations of the deceased victims and the whole idea was to identify the cause of the death of the affected victims and in the process we were able to identify one hundred and ten (110) victims from the one hundred and sixteen (116) that died apart from the one that died after ten days he was admitted at LASUTH,» Obafunwa narrated.

When someone dies through the fault or misconduct of another, Georgia allows the family of the deceased victim the right to collect different types of damages.

The conscious pain and suffering of the deceased victim.

A survival action is brought by the deceased victim's estate (or selected representative) on behalf of the deceased victim.

Wrongful death lawsuits are legal claims brought by the family of a deceased victim of negligence, whether personal injury, product liability, or medical malpractice.

Not exact matches

Orlando's ultimate goal, Mayor Buddy Dyer told the Sentinel, is to «create something to honor the memory of the victims that are deceased [and] those that were injured, and a testament to the resilience of the community.»

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

The Diocese of Santa Rosa said in a statement it had given «a significant settlement to a victim of the deceased Fr.

However, if any of the victims were NOT Christian, then the use of an overtly Christian symbol becomes disrespectful to the deceased.

If he is placing crosses ON HIS OWN, without consulting the victims» families as to the religious beliefs of the deceased, his use of such iconography may well be inappropriate.

He has placed 12 crosses, each representing one of the 12 deceased victims.

The jury returned a verdict of accidental death for each of the 95 deceased, and the later inquest into the 96th victim reached the same conclusion.

In July 2011, following the revelation that the News of the World had paid private investigators to hack into the phones of Milly Dowler, as well as the families of murder victims and deceased servicemen, Miliband called for News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks to resign, urged David Cameron to establish a public, judge - led inquiry into the scandal, and announced that he would force a Commons vote on whether to block the News International bid for a controlling stake in BSkyB.

Whilst investigations conducted from 2005 to 2007 appeared to show that the paper's phone hacking activities were limited to celebrities, politicians, and members of the British Royal Family, in July 2011 it was revealed that the phones of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, relatives of deceased British soldiers, and victims of the 7 July 2005 London bombings had also been hacked.

Troopers located an employee who was deceased, the investigation revealed that the victim was backing an excavator out of a building when the accident occurred.

Ensures that spouse killers do not control victim remains Under the legislative agreement, individuals who have been charged with causing the death, or who were the subject of a restraining order protecting the deceased person, will not be eligible to exercise control of the disposition of the deceased remains.

Other programs support individual victims and families, helping to confirm the identities of deceased persons or to connect living relatives with each other.

«We've experienced more difficulty than anticipated in obtaining postmortem DNA profiles from deceased victims,» said Karl Kent, former joint chief of staff for the Thailand Tsunami Victim Identification Center.

«Our motivation for this study came from information local law enforcement agencies gave us about using scent - detection dogs to help them find living and deceased victims after mass disasters like earthquakes,» explained Prue Armstrong, lead author of the study from the University of Technology Sydney.

One way to improve the efficiency of scent detection dogs is to recognize the change in the odor of a recently deceased victim.

Also delivering a killer one - two was Brendan Gleeson, who helped ground In Bruges, but is primarily the main reason The Guard soars so highly, with «high» being the operative word, as we're first introduced to his Sergeant Gerry Boyle taking acid which he has taken from the pocket of a very recently deceased car - crash victim.

(In French with subtitles) Rebirth (Unrated) Post 9/11 documentary updates the progress made over the last decade of five, emotionally - scarred people trying to recover from the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center: a woman who lost her fiancé; a teenager who lost his mom; a firefighter who lost the rest of his company; a construction worker saddled with survivor's guilt over his deceased brother; and a badly - burned victim who has undergone 40 surgical procedures and counting.

The dogs were extremely important in locating human victims, by using their sense of smell and agility to direct workers to the location of those injured and deceased.

Souvenir I (1971), which imprisons photographs of the artist as a child and a deceased victim of the concentration camps in polyester resin and fibreglass, feels like a premature elegy.

I listened, and my heart leapt with new hope and inspiration to continue to carry forth the message of the Chicago Ride of Silence and to be that voice for hurt and injured cyclists who are survivors and for the deceased victims and their families.

A wrongful death claim allows beneficiaries of the deceased to seek compensation for their related damages (e.g., loss of financial support), as opposed to the victim's damages (e.g., pain and suffering, lost wages, etc).

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.

Indiana law on wrongful death lawsuits is specific about who can file a claim on behalf of a deceased loved one; it often depends on whether the victim was an adult or child.

It is likely that the deceased worker would be considered a foreseeable victim of whatever negligence caused the truck to tip over.

That said, the fact a victim may be able to have her or his claim of sexual abuse against a deceased wrongdoer validated by a court, even when a lawsuit is started more than two years after the abuser's death, may be an important step in the victim's healing process.

We must watch and see whether other courts follow the lead of Justice Lederer, particularly in the situation more commonly seen where the deceased person is not the alleged sexual abuse victim as in Fox v. Narine, but rather the alleged wrongdoer.

Irwin Mitchell has won a landmark case in the Supreme Court on behalf of a deceased asbestos - related cancer victim, whose family will now receive compensation despite the fact that he was an employee at the factory where he worked with the toxic substance.

These include: United States v. Resendiz - Ponce, which presents the question whether the omission of an element from a federal indictment can constitute harmless error (9th Circuit says no); Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc. v. Metrophones Telecommunications, Inc., on whether a provider of pay phone services can sue a long distance carrier for alleged violations of the Federal Communications Commission's regulations concerning compensation for coinless pay phone calls (9th Circuit says yes); Cunningham v. California, a sentencing case involving whether whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law violates the 6th and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution by permitting California state court judges at sentencing to impose enhanced sentenced based on their determination of facts neither found by the jury nor admitted by the defendant; and Carey v. Musladin, reviewing the 9th Circuit's decision to overturn a murder conviction of a defendant who claimed he was denied a fair trial because the victim's relatives appeared in court wearing buttons with the deceased's picture on them.

In New York, wrongful death actions are filed by the estate of the decedent (deceased person) and any verdict or settlement is awarded to the victim's estate to be divided according to the terms of the court's order.

When a tire fails before a crash and thereby causes a crash - and is determined to have done so due to a design, manufacturing, or warnings defect, the tire manufacturer and others in the chain of the tire's production and distribution may be held strictly liable for consequent damages suffered by injured victims or deceased victims» survivors.

The victim's family, which only includes the spouse, children and issue of deceased children, can also recover for the economic loss or the loss of present and future income that the decedent would have earned over their working life.

When those accidents are caused by someone else's negligence, the financial burden should not fall to the injured or to the family of a deceased accident victim.

If the victim dies, these expenses can also include funeral and burial expenses and the loss of the deceased's companionship.

In order for damages to be awarded, the family of the victim will have to prove that the defendant acted negligently or intentionally, and that these actions were the direct cause of death for the deceased.

In wrongful death cases, we help the families of deceased accident victims take action to hold the at - fault parties accountable.

In Georgia, your right to bring a wrongful death lawsuit will depend on your relation to the deceased accident victims, as well as the status of other survivors.