Sentences with phrase «than the victim negligently»

If someone other than the victim negligently, recklessly, or intentionally acted or failed to act in a way that caused the victim's death some of the victim's surviving close relatives may have a claim for wrongful death.

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With more than $ 1.75 million at stake, Maryland's top court says it will consider whether a pharmaceutical company could be held financially liable for negligently failing to warn doctors about a drug's potentially carcinogenic side effect even though the cancer victim contributed to the fatal disease by smoking cigarettes.