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Personal Injury

WRONGFUL DEATH

WRONGFUL DEATH DAMAGES

When a wrongdoer negligently causes the death of a spouse, parent, or child, this gives rise to a civil damages claim for “wrongful death.”  After determination of fault, a jury is asked to decide:

1. The full amount of money that will reasonably and fairly compensation [name of each survivor] for each of the following elements of damages proved by the evidence to have resulted from the death of [name of decedent].

2. The loss of love, affection, companionship, care, protection, and guidance since the death and in the future.

3. The pain, grief, sorrow, anguish, stress, shock, and mental suffering already experienced, and reasonably probable to be experienced in the future.

4. The income and services that have already been lost as a result of the death, and that are reasonably probable to be lost in the future.

5. The reasonable expenses of funeral and burial.

6. The reasonable expenses of necessary medical care and services for the injury that resulted in the death.