Maison Law represents families who lose loved ones in heartbreaking Merced County car accidents. When reckless drivers cause fatal collisions, close relatives of the victims can seek full support as they take time to mourn their loss. Our wrongful death lawyers offer a free, confidential case consultation to all family members. Schedule a case review to find out how much in support a car insurance company should provide families after a tragedy.
Do I Need a Lawyer After Losing Someone in a Fatal Car Accident?
If a loved one is killed in a car accident caused by someone else’s mistake, families have the legal right to seek financial restitution. Families can seek support from insurance companies, but that doesn’t mean they’ll receive the assistance they should. Insurance adjusters are trained to try to limit what families receive and they can even attempt to blame an innocent victim for an accident.
A Merced Wrongful Death Attorney safeguards the family’s rights and fights back against these unfair tactics. A skilled lawyer makes sure families are awarded all benefits available. A personal injury lawyer can help in filing a wrongful death claim and protecting the family’s interests. A lawyer also handles the frustrating negotiations with insurance companies while allowing as little disruption to a grieving family as possible.
Merced Fatal Accident Hazards
Local drivers on busy routes like Highway 99 and Olive Avenue probably experience a lot of close calls each week. A mistake by a careless or reckless driver can be all it takes to cause a devastating collision that leaves victims with life-threatening injuries.
Victims might have been in an SUV when it was hit from behind by a speeding pick-up. The victims left fighting for life might be defenseless pedestrians or cyclists struck while trying to cross an intersection. An unprotected motorcyclist could be dealing with traumatic injuries after a driver attempted to make a turn without looking to see if a rider might be approaching.
Victims could end up at the Emergency Room at Mercy Medical Center. They could be flown to the Trauma Center in Fresno. In heartbreaking cases where victims don’t pull through, at-fault drivers and their insurance providers must be there for the families left behind. That means providing for their financial needs in the aftermath of an accident and in the future.
How Can a Lawyer Help My Family After a Fatal Car Accident?
Families are empowered to file wrongful death claims and seek justice and financial help after a terrible accident. Sadly, car insurance companies often fight hard to avoid having to accept blame. If you don’t have a skilled lawyer on your case, you may be convinced to accept a quick settlement offer that will leave your family without the money they’ll need to avoid a financial crisis in the future.
Your lawyer can handle the preparation of your case while leaving you and your loved ones time to focus on healing emotionally. Your Maison Law attorney would immediately begin an investigation into the tragic accident and the driver involved. Witness testimony, accident reconstruction team evidence, and surveillance video, would all be collected to hold an auto insurance company 100% accountable for what happened.
When all evidence was ready, your lawyer would file a wrongful death claim and begin negotiations to get the maximum in future support for your family. If an auto insurer was unwilling to accept blame or provide what was fair, your lawyer would be ready to take the insurer to court.
Insurance companies want to avoid the cost and bad publicity of going before a judge and jury. Companies will often work harder to satisfy you and your family with a fair settlement check, if the threat of a lawsuit is real. Maison Law would be at your side from start to finish to make sure your family had the support to begin rebuilding their lives.
Who Can File a Wrongful Death Claim in California?
In California, the most immediate family is given the right to file a wrongful death claim.
- The spouse or domestic partner of the victim
- The children and adopted children of the victim
- In some cases, the step-children of the victim
Other family members like the parents and siblings of the victim could join in a wrongful death claim if they were financially dependent on the deceased.
In many cases, the wrongful death lawsuits of all eligible family members are combined into one wrongful death case. When participants don’t agree on the terms of the case, litigants are allowed to file individual wrongful death claims, separate from the rest of the family.
A Maison Law attorney can file a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the entire family or represent individual members of the family in seeking justice.
Seeking Support for the Families of Wrongful Death Victims
A skilled Merced car accident attorney assists your family in filing a wrongful death claim backed by power evidence. Your lawyer also includes a detailed list of every hardship family members have faced and expect to face in the future.
These are just a few of the factors that determine the amount on a wrongful death settlement check for the family:
- Expenses of a funeral service and burial.
- The ambulance fees and any hospital bills accumulated before the victim passed away.
- The paychecks and work benefits the victim will no longer provide in the years to come.
- Emotional trauma suffered by family members. This can include the loss of the love and guidance victims won’t be able to provide in the years to come.
- Loss of consortium. (The loss of intimacy now that a partner is gone)
- Cost of grief counseling and other mental health services.
Contact a Merced Fatal Car Accident Lawyer
Families should be allowed the time they need to grieve after a tragic accident, but bills and other hardships stemming from a tragedy can make a wrongful death lawsuit necessary. A Merced wrongful death attorney can handle your case privately with as little disruption to close family members as possible.
Contact Maison Law for a free and confidential case evaluation for any family in Merced County. Our lawyers offer compassionate care to those in mourning to ensure they don’t suffer the financial consequences of someone else’s mistake.
If you think we can help your family secure more for their futures, you won’t need to worry about having the money to pay for a lawyer’s assistance. Maison Law doesn’t get paid unless we win your case for your family. Then our fee is covered through the wrongful death settlement check an insurance company must provide to your family.
