Category: Wrongful Death

The parents of a 19-year-old California woman who died of drug overdose while attending a rave in Los Angeles County in August 2015 have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the event's organizers. The couple claim in their legal action that their daughter's life could have been saved if she had received...

On Nov. 25, the father of Paul Walker, the deceased The Fast and the Furious actor, filed a lawsuit in California against Porsche over the fiery car crash that took his son's life two years ago. The wrongful death suit, which was filed in California, claims that the Porsche in which the...

Charity eventgoers in California may have heard about the young man who was fatally shot while attending a ZombiCon event on Oct. 17 in Fort Myers, Florida. Since the incident, the young man's family has decided to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the organizer and security company that were overseeing the...

There are three basic types of damages that a successful wrongful death plaintiff can recover under California law: direct or economic damages, indirect or non-economic damages, and in some situations punitive or exemplary damages. Direct damages are generally the easiest to calculate, being based on information that is easier to calculate such...

Much of the time if you think of the consequences arising out of an incident such as a car or truck accident, your first thoughts may be connected to things like compensation for injuries or recompense for property losses. But injuries do not always have to be to you in the physical...

Animal attacks can cause very serious injuries, such as scarring, nerve damage, and infection. In rare and tragic cases, an attack can even result in death. If your loved one was killed by a dog or another vicious animal, you may have a wrongful death claim.

Under California law,...

WRONGFUL DEATH VS. SURVIVAL ACTION

If you lose a loved one because of the act of another, that action can lead to either or both of two causes of action: one based on the concept of wrongful death, and the other on what is known as a survival...

It is not always the elderly who may be found at assisted living facilities; individuals who are young but who also have special needs may also require the services that they live-in care facility provides. When the staff at such a facility performs those services negligently or does not perform them at...

Wrongful death actions can become complex to resolve in court, especially when multiple defendants are involved. Take a truck accident, for example, that begins when the company that owns the truck fails to perform proper brake maintenance, leading the truck to undergo a brake failure while the truck driver was speeding and...

The basis for much of civil law rests upon the question of what is reasonable. Reasonableness in its varying forms and expressions lends itself to predictability and to safety; its absence can lead to things that should not happen.

Most readers of this blog will be aware of the...