As mentioned before in this blog, for a wrongful death action to be properly initiated, a personal representative needs to be duly appointed for the decedent's…
As an update to my August , 2010, entry about the wrongful death of an autistic man who was left for hours in a locked minivan, on a record hot day, by…
Lawyers for the families of the two young Hungarian tourists who died after the collision between the duck-boat and a garbage barge have filed suit in…
Bad luck killed the eight spectators watching the annual "California 200" off-road race in the Mojave Desert on August 14. Almost all of the eight were…
The facts of the Sean Bell wrongful death case are especially compelling. An unarmed Mr. Bell was gunned down on a street in Queens by police officers…
Having written two wrongful death entries about persons dying of hypothermia, one a lost skier, the other a Buffalo woman whose utilities were shut offfor…
Two young men and a young woman died when a car they were in slammed into a utility pole on a curve in the road, in Oakfield, Genesee County, early Saturday…
The Associated Press reported "NY Skier's Heirs File Claim Against Idaho Rescuers" that the Teton County Sheriff's Department, Teton County and Idaho…
According to the New York Post article Tree-limb snap kills baby in Central Park, a tree branch fell on a mother holding her child, posing for a photo,…
As mentioned in the most recent entry about the Ducks/barge collision, on Friday, July 9, a team of eleven National Transportation Safety Board investigators…
An empty, unmanned and unmotorized barge being pushed by a tugboat on the Delaware River, struck and sank a popular tourist vehicle in Philadelphia last…
At the outset, I had no idea of internet interest in the topic "wrongful death", but I did know that many survivors lives are unfortunately altered by…
Saint Peter, and accident investigators, would ask the two men, ages 28 and 39, what they were doing at the time of their deaths, in a GMC Yukon, on Saturday,…
In April, 2007, the Appellate Division, Fourth Department, ruled in the case of Donna Fordham-Coleman v. National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation, on…
What if your husband, a pilot, crashed in his single-engine plane, crawled from the wreckage, and though badly injured, activated an emergency signal…
I first read this case in law school. It shows the difficulty of successfully suing the US government for tort liability, including wrongful death.Brown…
Punitive damages may be awarded in a variety of legal causes, including wrongful death cases. The purpose of punitive damages is to punish the defendant,…
As mentioned in Part 1 of this blog entry, both sides of the case appealed certain aspects of the jury award, and what the trial court did with it, pursuant…
On May 21, 2010, the Democrat & Chronicle reported Man pleads not guilty in fatal crash in March about Richard T. Woods, 29, who displayed signs of…
A May 18, 2010, NY Daily News headline was confusing: Court date set for Sean Bell fiancee Nicole Paultre-Bell in wrongful death lawsuit How does a fiancee…
