What is a wrongful death lawsuit?

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Anytime that you have a death of a loved one, they leave behind family basically has to figure out well what about all of our needs, what about all of our losses. How are those taken care of? And so, we have this thing called a wrongful death suit. The law in every state basically says you’re going to only be one lawsuit filed as a result of a death. And so you have to have one person who becomes the representative of the estate and that person can bring a wrongful death suit but that person has a duty to look out after the interests not just of themselves, but of the other persons who could take from the estate. So, there’s this one lawsuit, filed by one representative who has to look out after the interests of all of those impacted by the death of that loved one. So if you want a law firm that can help you walk through those initial steps of how to set up the estate and to get the wrongful death act started call Bailey Javins & Carter.