Representing Family Members of Wrongful Death Victims
As lawyers who handle wrongful death lawsuits in the Knoxville and eastern Tennessee, we have talked to many people who have lost a family member due to the negligence of another party. We understand the trauma your family is going through and wish to express our sorry for the grief you are going through.
If you are reading this page, you are probably considering filing a wrongful death lawsuit against the person or entity who caused your family member's death. In a wrongful death case, you need to place a financial value on a loved one's life. This is always a difficult thing to do.
The lawyers of O'Connor, Petty, Child & Piper will consult experts such as economists, life planners and financial professionals to determine how much money your loved one could have earned in his or her lifetime. The value of those future earnings is important to a family who will need to get along financially without that person's support in the future. In Tennessee, you can also recover for the loss of society, consortium and comfort your family member provided you.
Getting To Know Your Family Member
As your lawyer in a wrongful death suit, an important part of what we do is get to know a person who is no longer living and explain to a court or an insurance company how that person's loss will affect the people that he or she has left behind. To do that, we need to get to know your loved one.
One of the people whose lives we represented was a man who inspected building sites in Knoxville. He died when he fell through a hole in a floor of a building he was inspecting. Our lawyers went to this man's place of employment and obtained letters that he had received from the people whose homes and buildings he had inspected. We also got to know what kind of person he was and how committed he was to his family.
In the end, we helped the family recover nearly $1 million for their loss. This was a case that another prominent Knoxville lawyer turned down because he felt that the court would rule that the person contributed to his own death by not seeing the hole in the floor. However, by obtaining OSHA records and other testimony, our lawyers proved that the owner of the construction site was negligent.
Free Attorney Consultation
To discuss your wrongful death case with a lawyer at O'Connor, Petty, Child & Piper, call us toll free at 877-889-7221 or send us an e-mail. Our law office is conveniently located in the Bank of America building in Knoxville, a short walk from the courthouses.
