Boston Fatal Truck Crash Attorneys
Truck Accident Wrongful Death
When someone close to you dies, you face demanding and unimaginable challenges. Many people who lose a loved one in an unexpected accident caused by another's negligence often find themselves wondering how they will be able to get their family through this let alone stay on top of paying medical bills and take care of funeral expenses. If dealing with these difficulties isn't enough, other factors impacting your life include the process of filing a wrongful death claim in Massachusetts and obtaining a successful wrongful death case result. These tasks will not be easy and it's understandable that the last thing you will want to do is "take care of business."
Sadly, large commercial trucks are often involved in thousands of deadly accidents every year. At the Kiley Law Group, we can only hope that by providing surviving family members of wrongful death victims with information regarding Massachusetts law and their legal rights, we may alleviate a small portion of the stress you are dealing with.
Why Pursue a Wrongful Death Lawsuit?
If another person's negligence or an entity's oversight caused or contributed to the truck accident that took the life of someone close to you, you may pursue compensation in a wrongful death lawsuit for funeral expenses, past and future lost wages, loss of companionship, and other types of losses and damages.
Wrongful death law in Massachusetts allows for surviving family members of a wrongful death victim to pursue economic damages and non-economic damages. Economic damages are typically easier to determine since they relate to losses or damages that are more concrete:
- loss of past and future wages;
- hospital bills; and
- funeral and burial expenses.
However, while important, non-economic damages are often more difficult to determine and can be painful for an individual and his or her family to establish, let alone face:
- loss of companionship;
- loss of consortium; and
- grief and suffering.
While you are not obligated to pursue a MA wrongful death lawsuit, doing so may help you and your family receive compensation so your time and energy can focus on rebuilding your life and providing the emotional support your family needs rather than worrying about how to pay your mortgage, medical bills, and/or other monthly expenses.
As one of the most intricate areas of law, wrongful death claims require that you stand firm when up against insurance companies that are likely to offer an insufficient settlement and even delay or deny a rightful claim.
Proving Fault in Your Truck Accident Wrongful Death Case
In some semi-truck wrongful death cases, it is difficult to pin the responsibility onto a single agent. Sometimes you will be bringing multiple parties to justice such as the truck driver and the trucking company that employs him or her. Once again, this is a particularly complex process. Depending on the perpetrators involved, your wrongful death case may require multiple types of filings and be subject to multiple statutes of limitations. This is why, even if hiring an attorney seems daunting in the beginning, it is important to at least speak with a lawyer before speaking with the insurance companies or deciding to take on a wrongful death claim on your own.
Although it may not be easy to relive the loss of your loved one, proving fault in your truck accident wrongful death case may require you to aid in the process of demonstrating several points. First of all, it must be proven that the defendant had a duty of care for the safety of the victim. It must also be proven that the defendant was negligent or acted with malice. Ultimately, it must be proven that the defendant's negligence or malice directly caused the victim's death.
Dealing with Insurance Companies
After decades of representing accident and wrongful death victims in Massachusetts, our lawyers at the Kiley Law Group are disgusted by the extent to which insurance companies take advantage of accident victims. If the truck driver or other negligent party involved in your loved one's death has insurance, you will, unfortunately, have to deal with an insurance company.
The tactics and strategies of insurance companies constitute a large part of why we always recommend a claimant not move through the claim process without an attorney. Insurance companies hire aggressive lawyers and experts whose loyalty is to their client and they will work to protect that client by any legal means necessary. They may try to discredit you, your family – anyone involved in testifying on your behalf.
Legal Experience to Obtain Justice
Our Boston truck accident wrongful death attorneys will make sure your rights are protected against deceitful insurance company tactics and that a strong case is built on your behalf to combat defenses to your claim. To learn more about how we can help hold negligent parties liable and obtain the compensation that is due to you, please call (888) 208-1695 for a completely free consultation.
