Each year, an estimated 98,000 deaths of the American citizens occur due to wrongful deaths in nursing homes. Most of the medical errors in these casualties are preventable. The Institute of Medicine claims that every one out of five medical errors possesses serious or fatal risks. Wrongful death is a term used in the legal …
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Death of a loved one is never easy for a person to handle. But what makes this tragedy even worse is wrongful death due to someone’s negligence or carelessness. Some events in which others are at fault for a person’s death include drunk driving, medical malpractice, unsafe work environment, and many others. Although financial compensation …
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Have you or someone you know suffered from mental or financial pain due to death of a loved one caused by negligent behavior? If so, you can make the guilty party pay for their neglect by filing a case in the court. Whether the wrongful death occurred as a result of an automobile accident, medical …
A wrongful death claim alleging that the use of a defectively designed morcellator caused cancer cells to be rapidly spread throughout a woman’s uterine, leading to her death, was recently filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District for Illinois. The claim is one of dozens that have been filed against Johnson & …
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The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that there were 130,557 unintentional injury deaths reported in a single year in the United States. While some of these deaths occur for reasons that no one can be held responsible for, others are completely avoidable and occur as a result of negligence. The …
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When a loved one dies this can often be one of the most difficult times of your life, not to mention the lives of countless other family members and friends. Coping with the sudden loss of a person so integral to your life can leave you with many feelings to sort through, not to mention …
When a worker is injured while working in Illinois, that worker has the right to file a claim for workers’ compensation benefits. And when a worker is killed on-the-job in the state—as were 163 workers in Illinois in 2014, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics—workers’ compensation insurance pays death benefits to the deceased worker’s …
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Wrongful death claims are those civil actions that are filed to recover damages after the death of a loved one is caused by negligence or wrongful act. Much like personal injury claims, wrongful death claims require that the plaintiff establish duty, breach of duty, and causation, and can yield damages for economic and noneconomic losses. …
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