Pine Bluff Wrongful Death Lawyer

A Pine Bluff wrongful death lawyer from McMath Woods can help you fight for your loved one and get the recovery your family deserves. This can provide peace of mind to you and your family, so the financial stress is taken off your shoulders, and you’re able to grieve for your loved one.

Supporting Grieving Families

Our law firm has helped grieving families go through the legal process and seek full and fair compensation for their losses. We understand that this process can be emotionally challenging. While a successful claim will not undo what happened, it can give you and your family financial security and let you speak up for your loved one.

How Does a Wrongful Death Accident Happen?

Negligence from another person or party can result in a fatal accident. When your wrongful death lawyer is investigating your case, we’ll get every detail about the accident to determine how it happened and who was responsible. Accidents that can cause fatalities include:

Car Accidents

Drunk drivers, people who text and drive, and reckless drivers can cause fatal car accidents.

Truck Accidents

Truck accidents often cause more serious and fatal injuries because of the truck’s size and weight.

Medical Malpractice

When doctors, nurses, or other medical professionals make mistakes, these instances of medical malpractice could cost someone their life.

Nursing Home Abuse

Senior citizens could be abused or neglected in their nursing homes. If the abuse or lack of care is severe, this could lead to a wrongful death.

Work Injuries

Dangerous work environments can result in work injuries and fatalities from exposure to toxins, malfunctioning equipment or mishandling of equipment, falling objects, and falls.

No matter how your loved one’s accident occurred, your Pine Bluff wrongful death lawyer will find out what happened. We understand that going over the accident can feel like re-experiencing the loss. Our attorneys will treat your case with the respect your loved one deserves and help explain the process. If you have any questions, we’ll have answers.

What Should You Know About Wrongful Death Claims?

When your family is seeking a wrongful death action, there are options for how you can do so. Ark. Code Ann. §§ 16- 62-101 – 102 states that the deceased’s personal representative can bring the wrongful death action forward. The deceased’s heirs can do so if there is no personal representative. The heirs can be the deceased’s surviving spouse, children, parents, or siblings.

You may wonder if coming forward with a claim is worth the time and effort. When you’re grieving for your loved one, making arrangements, and dealing with your loved one’s affairs, adding a legal matter could seem like too much. However, a wrongful death claim can provide financial security for you and your family.

Funeral and burial arrangements can quickly become expensive. You want to provide your loved one with a ceremony that honors them, and when these costs add up, you may start to worry about the other expenses you’re dealing with. You may have considerable bills that are now your responsibility. If your loved one was in the hospital for injuries, receiving treatment, or receiving other types of care, then they may have significant medical bills. These sudden expenses can be intimidating, and you may not know how you will be able to repay them.

There’s also the matter of your loved one’s income. If you depended on their income, their loss could also jeopardize how you live your life. If you provide a home for children or take care of others, you could suffer extreme financial stress. That’s where our lawyers can help.

When we’re fighting for you, we’ll assess the total losses that you’ve suffered. We’ll look at the funeral and burial costs for your loved one. Our lawyers will add up the expenses from the health care your loved one received and the days of work they had missed before they passed. We’ll also total what they would have likely made had they continued to work. When we have this amount and any other financial losses, we’ll fight for your wrongful death award to cover these costs.

With this compensation, you can take away the financial burden. Your Pine Bluff wrongful death lawyer will also consider the emotional costs. Your loved one’s pain and suffering, mental anguish, as well as your loss of consortium and guidance, will be considered when determining what you and your family should recover.

Our lawyers understand how it may feel strange to file a claim for losing your loved one. It may help to think that your loved one would have sought justice through a personal injury claim had they survived. In this claim, their lawyer would have fought for them to recover medical expenses, lost wages, and property damage and recover costs for pain and suffering, emotional distress, and loss of enjoyment of life.

You’re also taking a civil claims route to getting justice, and you don’t deserve to have to bear the burden of the costs of losing your loved one when it was someone else’s fault.

McMath Woods Will Stand by Your Side

The attorneys at our law firm are ready to help you in any way we can. The first step starts with you. Reach out to us today so we can set up a free case evaluation. It’s important to act fast so we can act for you before it is too late. There are time limits on filing these cases, and if you wait too long, you may miss the time window allowed by law. Our lawyers can explain the timetable for filing a wrongful death claim.

We will give your loved one a voice and help your family get the recovery you need. Getting justice for your loved one may provide some comfort and allow you to grieve, knowing that the right party was held accountable for their actions.