What if your loved one is admitted into the hospital for a seemingly simple operation, and you learn a day later that they died during the procedure? What if a friend was involved in a car accident involving a drunk driver, and they died?
Suppose your grandparent was prescribed the wrong dosage of medication, and they overdosed? Or what if your spouse was exposed to hazardous conditions on their work site, causing them death?
These are all just a handful of examples of why surviving loved ones like you could find themselves reaching out to wrongful death lawyers Joliet. By legal definition, and in layman’s terms, a wrongful death occurs when the victim was either accidentally killed, or intentionally killed.
In the case of a wrongful death suit, the suit falls under civil court law. This means that the survivors filing the claim can sue for financial compensation, as opposed to suing for the defendant (or defendants) to be found guilty of a crime punishable by prison.
It’s crucial for you (or other survivors to file a wrongful death suit for quite a few reasons. The first reason is, a wrongful death award can help you to handle unexpected expenses involving funeral, burial, or cremation. If your deceased loved one was the financial provider in your family, then losing them could spell immediate financial devastation. The financial award that wrongful death lawyers Joliet could win for you would help you and your family to survive the financial loss.
Not only this, but the court-ordered award is a way to provide financial compensation for the loss of life. Of course, you’ll feel that your loved one’s life was priceless, and indeed, there’s no way for a court to adequately provide a fee for a life. But in the case of a wrongful death award, the court attempts to create a provision for helping to make things whole again.
If you have the burden of putting your life back together after your loved one died from wrongful causes, know that you don’t have to shoulder the legal burden alone. Reach out to one of our attorneys at BlockLaw.com.
