Orlando Florida Wrongful Death Lawyers Attorneys
OVERVIEW
Wrongful death results from an act of negligence and can be the basis for a lawsuit brought by the deceased's survivors against those who caused the death. According to National Center for Health Statistics, the nation's leading causes of unintentional injury deaths are car accidents, falls, poisonings, suffocations, burns and drowning.
CASE SUMMARIES
- A father of three was killed while riding in the company-owned car of an intoxicated woman who was driving at a high rate of speed. Representing the man's survivors, Sam King argued that the woman's employer was vicariously responsible for her use of the vehicle and had breached its duty of reasonable care by failing to investigate her history of driving in a dangerous and reckless manner. Despite the man's comparable negligence (he also was intoxicated and unbelted at the time of the accident); Mr. King negotiated a confidential settlement of $500,000.00.
- In a tragic case of neglect, an 81-year-old grandmother recuperating from a hospital stay at a Central Florida nursing home suffered a series of falls that resulted in her death. The woman fell numerous times during a four-day period with the final fall causing obvious head injury. Despite her family's requests, the nursing home staff failed to provide proper care or follow established head injury protocols. The day after her final fall, the woman died from internal bleeding due to a subdural hematoma. DWKM&R obtained a settlement of $900,000 on behalf of the woman's estate.
- DWKM&R handled a wrongful death claim involving a 44-year-old husband and father of four who died at a Central Florida hospital from complications following routine surgery. This tragic and avoidable death was caused by the anesthesiologist's lack of care combined with defective equipment. DWKM&R settled the case less than a month before trial for a confidential sum that will protect the family's financial future.
- A 30-year-old woman was crossing a busy intersection in Orlando when a 17-year-old driver ran the red light. He hit and killed her, then drove away. The young driver told his family the car was damaged by a falling tree limb; however, a repair shop mechanic doubted the story. The parents repaired the car anyway, destroying evidence and making it nearly impossible to prove liability. Only after the car was repaired did the parents hire an attorney and report the accident to the police. DWKM&R represented the woman's parents in a wrongful death suit, settling the case before trial for $1.75 million plus $275,000 in uninsured motorist benefits.
- This wrongful death case involves a 97-year-old mother of seven whose family moved her into an assisted living facility following her husband’s death and a broken hip. Florida regulations require assisted living facilities to provide daily observations of their residents, perform monthly nursing assessments and notify family and medical providers of significant changes in condition. This facility ignored these regulations and also failed to comply with statutory obligations to remove her from the assisted living facility when it became clear she needed skilled nursing care beyond their ability. The woman suffered from bedsores, malnutrition, dehydration and multiple bruising, all of which ultimately led to her death. Orlando attorneys Tony Sos and Brian Wilson represented the family and successfully negotiated a confidential settlement just before trial.
- This case involves the wrongful death of a husband and father of two young children who was run over and dragged by a dump truck. Orlando injury attorneys Ken McKenna and Tony Sos represented the victim’s widow to determine who was negligently responsible for the man’s horrific death. We asserted that it was the duty of the dump truck contractor to provide qualified, licensed drivers. The contractor disagreed, saying he was merely a transportation broker and not responsible for the dump truck owner/driver who acted as an independent contractor. Both of the contractor’s arguments failed at trial. DWKMR successfully argued that the contractor was responsible for the acts of those he hired to perform the work and that the dump truck owner was serving as an agent of the contractor when the deadly truck accident occurred.
