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What Is the Difference Between Medical Malpractice and Wrongful Death?
A medical malpractice lawsuit can recover damages for injuries and losses caused by a medical error. A wrongful death lawsuit is for the family and beneficiaries to recover damages when their loved one is no longer…
Family Of 77 Year Old Poisoned By Carbon Monoxide Awarded $250,000 In Wrongful Death Claim
This week in Pennsylvania, a jury awarded the family of deceased 77 year old Sandra Trolio $868,000, which included $750,000 for pain and suffering. The family brought the wrongful death claim against the Westmoreland…
Wrongful Death Suit Settled Involving Semi-Truck Driver Who Struck Four Cars
Plaintiff James Culver filed a wrongful death claim in a Georgia court against truck driver Orlando Luke and Georgia-based transportation company LF XPress Inc. after his mother, Cheryl Culver, was killed in a traffic…
Wrongful Death Case In Washington D.C. After One-Year Old Drowns At Day Care Center
Five children were left briefly without supervision at a home-based day care center in Northeast D.C. at the time when a 23-month old boy drowned in a small inflatable pool. The daycare owner left to tend to some…
Family Of Police Officer Who Drowned During Training Exercise Files Wrongful Death Claim
Lieutenant Craig Lehner of the Buffalo Police Department died while conducting a training exercise with the Underwater Recovery Team Unit in October 2017. Donna Wilson, Lehner's sister, recently filed a wrongful death…
Wrongful Death Suit Claims A Water Park Is Liable For A Guest Who Contracted A Brain Infection
The parents of Lauren Seitz brought a wrongful death claim after the 18-year-old contracted a deadly infection from amoeba during a visit to the U.S. National Whitewater Center (UNWC) in Charlotte, North Carolina. She…
Ikea To Pay $50 Settlement To Three Families In Wrongful Deaths Of Children
In one of the largest settlements of its type, furniture seller Ikea has agreed to pay $50 million to the families of three two-year-olds from different states who all died after dressers tipped over on them. The three…
Wrongful Death Claim Filed After 10-Year-Old Girl In Pennsylvania Dies In Campground Accident
Stephen and Pene Shoemaker, the parents of Sarah Bella Shoemaker, have filed a wrongful death action in the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia County against GLE-CON, LLC and Oma's Family Campground, LLC. The…
Yale University Settles Wrongful Death Lawsuit In Murder Of Graduate Student For $3 Million
The family of a murdered Yale University graduate student has settled a wrongful death lawsuit against the Connecticut school for $3 million .
Wrongful Death Case Filed In Pennsylvania Following Tragic Accident
Gail Shipman, the widow of Roy M. Shipman Jr., has brought a wrongful death and product liability claim against Arco Industrial Sales Inc., Arco Packaging/Janitorial Sales, and the Signode Industrial Group LLC. The…
$6.75 Million Awarded In Tragic Wrongful Death Case Involving Wheelchair Accident
A 12-member jury in a trial in Sangamon County awarded the family of a deceased 78-year-old man $6.75 million in a wrongful death action. The defendant was Lewis Memorial Christian Village, where Robert Folder was…
Wrongful Death Case Filed Against Health Insurer After Woman Dies Awaiting Liver Transplant
Laurie St. Clair, a 53-year-old, died from cirrhosis of the liver awaiting a liver transplant . A wrongful death suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court alleges that her medical insurance companies Health Net of…
A Jury In A Philadelphia Court Awards $3 Million In Case Of Wrongful Death
Can an institution be held civilly liable when a resident commits suicide? A Philadelphia jury recently awarded roughly $3 million to the family of Carley Long, a 16-year-old that committed suicide while receiving…
Mother Of Man Who Died In Police Custody Receives $1.25 Million In Settlement Of Wrongful Death Claim
Ron Singleton was 45 years old in 2014 when he died while in police custody after a physical altercation with officers. It was determined that Singleton was under the influence of the drug “angel dust” at the time…
Jury In Philadelphia Awards $9.7 Million To Family Of Deceased In Wrongful Death Case Involving Motorcycle Club
A Philadelphia jury awarded $9.7 million in a wrongful death case to the family of a woman killed amid an altercation outside of Anna's Bar-B-Q Pit in Lower Heidelberg Township. Tonya Focht, 35, was fatally injured by a…
$2.8 Million Award In Maryland Wrongful Death Case Involving Company Vehicle
The family of Michael Funchion, who was a 63-year-old engineer who was killed in a vehicle accident, brought a wrongful death suit in Calvert County. The jury awarded Kathleen Funchion and their two sons $2.8 million…
Understanding Wrongful Death
“Wrongful death,” under the law, means a death caused by someone else's negligent or reckless actions, which would have resulted in a personal injury lawsuit had the person lived. A wrongful death suit can be brought by…
Wrongful Death Suit Filed Over Plane Crash During Filming Of Cruise Movie
A wrongful death claim has been filed by the family of a crew member on the upcoming film Mena after the airplane that they were flying hit bad weather in Columbia and crashed in the mountains . Two were killed and a…
Wrongful Death Suit Underway Against Maryland Transportation Authority Police From Reckless Pursuit
The Maryland Transportation Authority Police (MDTA) attempted a traffic stop which developed into a full speed chase pursuing Michael R. Brown, of Hagerstown, in December 2015. The chase spanned approximately 15 miles…
Judge In Philadelphia Declares Default Judgment & $10 Million Award In Wrongful Death Case
Nadia Malik was 22-years-old when she disappeared. Her body was later found in an abandoned vehicle owned by her boyfriend's father that was buried in snow. Investigators have thus far been unable to determine the exact…
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