Human error a central catalyst in wrongful death outcomes

Virtually any caring and empathetic personal injury attorney can readily speak to the stark upside involved in helping injury victims and their families obtain closure and meaningful recoveries in personal injury and wrongful death cases.

Bringing legal acumen and experience to bear on behalf of individuals who sorely need assistance is often a profoundly and moving experience for an advocate. As we noted in a blog post from earlier this year, helping injury victims “is about as central and important as it gets for a lawyer.”

We duly observed in that entry that, although a money recovery can obviously never fully compensate for the harms suffered by a person or family, “it can be tremendously important for a number of reasons.”

Obtaining maximum compensation goes far toward defraying medical costs and related outlays (read therapy and rehabilitation, for instance). It supplements lost income, sends a deterrent message to other would-be negligent actors and helps hurting families searching for closure.

A wrongful death matter is immediately distinct and wrenching for this variable: In virtually all instances, harm would have been averted absent human error.

The mistakes of others breed fateful consequences across a wide universe of possibilities. Our firm has handled broad-based wrongful death cases spanning widely sourced complications, for example. They include things such as these:

  • Fatal motor vehicle accidents
  • Medical malpractice events (e.g., birth injuries, misdiagnosis and medication errors)
  • Traumatic brain injuries
  • Spinal cord trauma
  • Work-related accidents and injuries
  • Adverse outcomes owing to defective products

If negligence factored into any of those outcomes, or any other accident or injury, it can be legally addressed. A proven personal injury and wrongful death attorney can respond to questions and concerns.