A wrongful death lawsuit can be brought against someone who has caused another person’s death either through negligence or through intentional harm.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), each year car accidents kill more than 35,000 people in the nation.
On what would have been his 21st birthday, Brandon Ellingson’s gathered to remember him. He was killed by what some are alleging to be a case of wrongful death when he drowned while in police custody.
In wrongful death lawsuits, two things come into play: comparative and contributory negligence. These dictate how the responsibility for the accident will be assigned to the parties involved.
Five months following a crash involving a limo bus and a tractor-trailer, it’s still unclear if Tracy Morgan will recover from the TBI he suffered during the collision.