Philadelphia Wrongful Death Lawyers
Have you lost a loved one, possibly a parent or child, due to neglect? If that death was caused by another person or a company, the law allows the surviving family members to receive compensation for the pain and suffering. They may also recover any lost wages of the deceased.
Contact Philadelphia Wrongful Death Lawyers at Lowenthal and Abrams and let our experience and resources help you through this difficult time. File a Philadelphia wrongful death claim today.
A Philadelphia wrongful death claim can result from medical malpractice, construction site, work hazards, train accidents, pedestrian accidents, car crashes, industrial toxic chemicals, and other unsafe products.
Some Types of Cases That Our Philadelphia Wrongful Death Lawyers Handle Include:
- Misdiagnosed Medical Conditions
- Vehicular Homicides
- Commercial Plane Crashes
- Work Place Safety Violations
- Product Liabilities
- Prescription Drugs
Cases of wrongful death involving minors or incapacitated persons may be petitioned in two ways:
- As an initial petition where there has been no civil action filed.
- As a petition where an action has been formally filed and given a court term and number.
Wrongful Death and Beneficiaries
Adult children who can establish pecuniary loss due to the death of a parent should all share equally in wrongful death benefits.
- Pecuniary loss must be grounded on reasonably continuous or past acts or conduct of the deceased through services, food, clothing, education, entertainment or gifts bestowed that have been rendered with a frequency that creates an anticipation of continuance.
- Pecuniary loss would not include claims for mental suffering, grief or distress of mind.
- The beneficiaries entitled to recover under the Wrongful Death Act include the spouse, children and parents of the deceased in the proportion they would take in the case of intestacy.
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Read below to see if your case or situation is similar to this Supreme Court of Pennsylvania decision on reversing the rulings of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas in the wrongful death of a stillborn.
Amadio v. Levin – The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania reversed the rulings of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas and the Pennsylvania Superior Court in finding that the parents of a stillborn child who died as a result of prenatal injuries could bring a lawsuit, in their own right and on the stillborn child’s behalf, against the mother’s obstetricians under the state’s wrongful death and survival statutes.
The court recognized a viable fetus in utero as having a separate existence from the mother and as thus able to sustain injuries independently of the mother. Live birth would no longer be a limiting prerequisite to parental action on behalf of the child’s estate.
Contact Philadelphia Wrongful Death Lawyers at Lowenthal and Abrams and let our experience and resources help you through this difficult time. File a Philadelphia wrongful death claim today.