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Choosing an Attorney
We got a call recently from somebody who was looking to hire an attorney for a wrongful death case. She was concerned about how to go about determining who the best attorney is for her and her situation. She asked how she should make that decision. We mentioned a couple of things to keep in mind. One, you want to make sure that the attorney that you choose has a core focus in wrongful death cases. The attorney that you know that has handled things for you in the past, maybe a traffic ticket or something like that, while they may be a very nice attorney, if they’re handling a variety of different things, legal matters, they don’t have a core focus in wrongful death cases. We really want to make sure you do have somebody who is really focused on handling wrongful death cases. There are certain details in the law that an attorney who focuses on wrongful death cases will know and will be able to present for you and get the best recovery for you.
You also want to make sure that you hire somebody that is skilled, experience, and has success in handling wrongful death cases. You want to make sure that you have somebody who has experience handling these, who knows how to work with the insurance carriers involved on these cases and knows how best to present your case to get you the best recovery. You also want to make sure that you find a trial attorney. A trial attorney is an attorney that will take your case to trial and to a jury trial if necessary. Not all attorneys out there will take a case to a jury trial or even know how to trial a jury trial. You want to make sure that you find an attorney that is a trial attorney. They will work your case up with the jury trial in mind from the get-go so that if your case has to be presented to a jury, they will be prepared to do that and will be able to get the best recovery for you. If you have any questions about your wrongful death case, give us a call. We’d be happy to talk to you about that.
Pursuing a Claim
We got a call recently from somebody who was interested in pursuing a wrongful death claim. They had a good question: Who can pursue a wrongful death claim in Kansas? While there are some intricate details that go into answering that question, the short answer is that essentially an heir of the deceased person is who can bring that claim. That usually is a spouse or a surviving child. If there is no surviving spouse or surviving children, then it includes other family members, including parents of the deceased person. So, it is a difficult question to answer, generally something that really does required getting some information about the circumstances that the family makeup and the position of the family with respect to the person that has passed away, all things we can answer by getting just a little bit of information from you. If you have any questions about whether you can pursue a wrongful death claim, please give us a call. We’d be happy to talk through that with you.
Available Benefits
A common question we get from people who have a wrongful death claim is what damages can be recovered in a wrongful death case in Kansas. There are a couple of different types of damages. One is damages to your loved one who has died, damages that were suffered before the death, so things like pain and suffering, if there was a period of time after the injury and before the death, also medical bills related to treatment if there was treatment after an injury but before death. Another type of damage that can be recovered is damages to the surviving heirs, and those can be both economic, so it can include economic losses to the surviving heirs, maybe that’s in the form of wages that the deceased person provided to the family or financial ways in which the deceased person supported the family, and can also include noneconomic damages, which are things like the loss of that relationship, the loss of support of a parent, the loss of companionship that you would have had before that wrongful death. If you have any questions about the types of damages that you could recover in a wrongful death case in Kansas, please give us a call and we’d be happy to answer those questions for you.
Has a loved one recently passed away in Kansas due to the negligence of someone else and have questions about how to win your wrongful death claim? Contact our experienced Kansas wrongful death lawyers today for a free consultation and case evaluation.
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