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Autopsies in a Wrongful Death CaseDo you think you have a wrongful death lawsuit? Ehline Law Firm has the best and most aggressive wrongful death attorneys, and we want to help you file a wrongful death claim properly. If your loved one’s cause of death is someone else’s negligence, you must hold the negligent party liable, and we can help you to make them pay.

You Need an Autopsy for a Wrongful Death Lawsuit

Before the funeral, you should ask for an autopsy to help prove that your loved one’s death is a result of the negative actions of someone or something.

Ehline Law Firm’s wrongful death attorneys know your situation’s difficulty, and we will take all the stress away. Contact us immediately if you believe you have a wrongful death case.

Wrongful Death Claims

As difficult as it is to lose a loved one, losing someone to wrongful death is even more traumatic. A wrongful death is a death that occurred due to someone’s negligence or “wrongful” actions. A wrongful death claim is a legal action that a deceased person’s family member or a surviving spouse files as a civil claim against the person held accountable for a person’s death.

Close family or the deceased person’s surviving spouse usually files the wrongful death claim. After all, a dead person cannot file wrongful death lawsuits. The wrongful death claim naturally asserts a certain amount of negligence or wrongdoing by the accused person (also known as the defendant) to establish party fault.

The law considers the surviving family members to be beneficiaries, and every head among them has the right to monetary compensation under the wrongful death law. Under the law, we categorize wrongful death into several main categories, such as medical malpractice, product liability, defective drugs, or toxic exposure.

Medical Malpractice

A wrongful death claim resulting from medical malpractice is becoming increasingly common across the United States. Research shows that over 200,000 people die yearly due to medical negligence, which rapidly increases daily. That involves medication errors, birth injuries, general negligence, surgical malpractice, and wrong medical treatment.

Product Liability

A wrongful death action resulting from product liability means that the death occurred as a direct result of a defective product. Since suppliers flood the market with many products, we don’t know which.

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Although the state has been known to bring criminal charges against Fortune 500 companies for negligent homicide, typically, no one defendant receives jail time. In fact, the corporate shareholders get stuck footing a criminal fine paid to the government, NOT the actual, surviving wrongful death victims.

Drugs and Toxic Exposure

Defective drugs are another common cause of death today. Many drugs on the market today have numerous side effects that can lead to severe complications and death. You can hit the drug manufacturer with a wrongful death lawsuit when this occurs.

Wrongful death can also result from toxic exposure, meaning that the person regularly dies due to exposure to harmful materials. This often happens at a workplace over many years.

It would help if you worked with a legal team experienced in wrongful death cases to help you claim compensation and punitive damages. We will evaluate your case and advise you on the best way to proceed to determine the wrongful death action.

Why You Need Ehline Law Firm for a Wrongful Death Claim

There is absolutely no way to regain what you have lost when you suffer a loss due to wrongful death. However, you can take some bit of comfort in the fact that you can get a small amount of justice from our personal injury law firm through the judicial system for a person’s death.

We have won several civil lawsuits seeking damages for an accident killing, and our many clients enjoy the wrongful death claims process as we make the legal end of their ordeal flow smoothly and help them assemble the broken pieces of their lives once again. Contact us now and start an attorney-client relationship.

Why do Clients Choose Our Passionate Lawyer?

Losing a loved one is difficult enough, but it will be even more difficult if you have to deal with the thought that they may have survived that untimely death. When a person dies, their family members must carry out further investigation. The Ehline legal team is adept at seeking justice, getting you paid the most for funeral expenses, lost wages, and loss of consortium.

We deal with grieving clients with a sense of understanding and compassion, helping the jury to see their human side as suffering victims.

If the jury rules the case in your favor, your family will receive compensation to help pay hospital bills and funeral expenses, not to mention restitution for emotional loss.

We are Aggressive USA Injury Attorneys

If you cannot get an autopsy by personal request or direct query, you may need to have one court-ordered. That is where we help our clients. Contact us immediately. We will contact a professional medical examiner or forensic pathologist for a legal autopsy report after the deceased person’s death certificate and other documents.

We Have Compassion

You need an attorney with compassion after a loved one dies. We have impeccable active listening skills so that you can tell us your mind.

We Have Experience

An autopsy may be vital to prove that your loved one died because of someone else’s negligence. If you are not able to get an order for an autopsy yourself, we make this request on your behalf. We gather sufficient evidence to file a wrongful death claim and have an autopsy performed for the deceased person.

We Investigate

Since you are a relative of the deceased, you have the right to postpone a burial or cremation. Once you get the autopsy performed, the evidence might be inconclusive. In this case, the suit will require more research and investigation into the cause of death.

Leave the investigation to us. We want to help you resolve the issue and begin the healing process. It is essential to let the professionals do all of the investigation work. Ehline wrongful death lawyers know the laws and how everything works in these situations.

You may receive compensation if wrongful death lawyers prove the case to involve suspicious circumstances surrounding the untimely death case. Of course, money will never bring your loved one back, but it can pay bills and help you find closure during this difficult time.

Speak With a Top Rated Autopsy Expert About Your Wrongful Death Claims Today

With the help of Ehline law firm’s professional wrongful death lawyers, we will bring the person responsible for your loved one’s death to justice and get your wrongful death case. Nobody wants to think about death, especially to our loved ones, but we must prepare to handle the situation if something terrible happens. To lose a parent, child, or spouse as a result of an accident, crime, or other circumstance tends to amplify despair, especially if the deceased was still relatively young.

As you mourn and try to find closure, you probably aren’t thinking of finding legal representation. However, if you may get compensation from a third party due to negligence or malice, contact us for a free consultation to file your claim properly.

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Michael Ehline

Michael Ehline is an inactive U.S. Marine and world-famous legal historian. Michael helped draft the Cruise Ship Safety Act and has won some of U.S. history’s largest motorcycle accident settlements. Together with his legal team, Michael and the Ehline Law Firm collect damages on behalf of clients. We pride ourselves on being available to answer your most pressing and difficult questions 24/7. We are proud sponsors of the Paul Ehline Memorial Motorcycle Ride and a Service Disabled Veteran Operated Business. (SDVOB.) We are ready to fight.

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