Losing a loved one or a family member is one of the most difficult experiences a person can endure. The mental anguish and emotional strife can be exhausting and even unbearable at times. This is not to mention the financial stress that comes with a death in the family. If you or someone that you love has been killed due to someone’s negligence, you may be entitled to full compensation and a financial award.
WHY SHOULD YOU HIRE A WRONGFUL DEATH LAWYER FROM OUR OFFICE?
At the Law Offices of Michael A. Fiumara, our knowledgeable and highly skilled personal injury attorneys are very dedicated to helping grieving spouses, parents, and children get the justice they deserve and the full compensation they need to secure peace of mind and move on with their lives following the loss of a loved one.Our dedicated and compassionate lawyers and professional staff provide expert legal guidance and assistance while upholding the highest standards of client ethics through direct communication and prompt service.We will always treat you with the respect that you deserve during this very trying time.
Please call for a free and confidential consultation and case evaluation at (855) 247-3190. If you call after hours, you will be connected with one of our personal injury attorneys.
- First of all, there is no amount of financial compensation that can replace the loss of a loved one.
- Second, when a family member dies due to the negligence or wrongdoing of a third-party, an experienced wrongful death attorney can immediately help protect your interests during what can be an emotional and financially devastating time.
- The wrongful death attorneys who have over 40 years of personal injury law experience at the Law Offices of Michael A. Fiumara have a proven track record of helping California families obtain financial security and a sense of justice for the loss of a family member. WE have been serving the injured plaintiffs since 1992.
- The Law Offices of Michael A. Fiumara and its team of skilled personal injury attorneys has the experience, connections, and resources to assemble a team of experts and top-notch professionals who will amass the necessary records, documentation, and other vital information to work with accident reconstruction experts and investigators to build a strong and winning case for you and your family.
What Can You Expect as Compensation in a Wrongful Death Claim?
Since insurance companies will do anything and everything in their power to minimize the impact of a death and will fight to limit the financial compensation that you and your family deserve, you need to hire a skilled and experienced wrongful death lawyer to provide the personal and compassionate representation that you deserve. Our goal, like yours is to achieve superior results; here are some of the forms of compensation that are achievable in a wrongful death claim:
- Medical costs.
- Funeral and burial costs.
- Loss of income and family support.
- Loss of benefits.
- Pain and suffering.
- Mental anguish and loss of companionship.
The wrongful death lawyers at the Law Offices of Michael A. Fiumara have decades of experience representing families who have lost loved ones due to negligence in the following types of cases:
- Airplane accidents.
- Auto accidents.
- Bicycle accidents.
- Construction accidents.
- Premises liability accidents.
- Pedestrian and crosswalk accidents.
- Explosions and burns.
- Swimming pool and drowning accidents.
- Train accidents
- Truck accidents
- Animal attacks, bites, and stings.
The Law Offices of Michael A. Fiumara’s highly skilled and knowledgeable wrongful death attorneys work real hard to recover the money families need and deserve following a wrongful death.
We have secured millions of dollars in jury verdicts for our clients and we are prepared to see your wrongful death case through to the very end in order to get you and your family the maximum compensation that you deserve.
TIME LIMITATIONS FOR RECOVERY
Wrongful death plaintiffs must prove that a negligent act or an act with intent to do harm caused the death in order to collect damages. This leaves the survivors and heirs scrambling to gather the crucial evidence and witnesses which will establish liability. Therefore, one must file a wrongful death lawsuit before the statutory deadline expires. This statutory deadline will be dependent upon whether the negligent party is a government agency or part of a governmental entity. In that case, it will be shorter than the normal two year statute of limitations, but we advise you to consult with a qualified and experienced wrongful death lawyer as soon as possible for the details that pertain to your case.
The skilled and compassionate wrongful death lawyers at the Law Offices of Michael A. Fiumara will do everything in their power to assist your family following the death of a loved one with a no-charge initial legal consultation. Any one of of our skilled and compassionate personal injury attorneys will be happy to discuss the particular facts of your case and estimate the potential award that you may recover and advise you of the next steps that you must take in order to get the justice that you deserve! The confidential consultation and case evaluation is free and if you don’t need our services we will not charge you.
It is important to note that we work on a contingency fee agreement which means that you pay nothing until the case is settled and we win for you. It is vitally important that you take action now and contact our law firm at (855) 247-3190. If you call us after work hours, then please have one of the professional operators connect you directly to one of our compassionate and dedicated personal injury attorneys any time of the day or night.
WHO CAN FILE A WRONGFUL DEATH CLAIM?
Spouses, parents, and children of wrongful death victims may be eligible to recover damages. Under California law, family members can collect economic damages for medical and funeral expenses as well as noneconomic damages for loss of companionship of a family member and for emotional suffering.
After someone has died in a tragic accident due to the fault of a third-party, only certain members of the family may file a wrongful death claim. Those closest to the decedent get the highest priority. Surviving spouses and children receive the highest entitlement and rights.They may file separately or jointly and the next in line would be the decedents:
- Parents
- Siblings
- Children or deceased siblings.
- Grand Parents
- There is a second group of claimants which would include a putative spouse and his/her children, stepchildren, and parents of the decedent may also file a wrongful death claim only if they were dependents of the decedent at the time of his/her death. It is best to come in to discuss these rights with us in person.
There is also another category of those who may file a wrongful death claim—Any minor who can prove that he/she was in the care, custody and receiving support from the decedent at the time of his/her death may have a viable wrongful death claim.
At the Law Offices of Michael A. Fiumara, our skilled and knowledgeable wrongful death attorneys are not only dedicated and hardworking, but they are empathetic to the pain felt by the survivors and offer compassionate representation in every wrongful death case.This is because long after a fatal accident, families feel the loss of a loved one who died because of the negligence and wrongdoing of others.
In seeking to recover wrongful death compensation for survivors, the skilled and compassionate personal injury attorneys along with our professional staff at the Law Offices of Michael A. Fiumara will always meet personally with families to learn everything we can about the loved one and what their loss has meant to the surviving members of the family.
Our law firm represents clients throughout the entire North Bay, including Marin, Napa, Solano, Sonoma, and Mendocino Counties and have represented clients in San Francisco as well.
WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU
In addition to representing you and your loved ones on a contingency fee basis where you don’t pay any upfront costs, our law firm works closely with medical providers. If medical treatment for emotional distress is not available through your own current health insurance coverage, then our firm can arrange on a lien basis any recommended treatment with the best and most respected professionals in the field. Professional and compassionate medical care is available on a lien basis from our network of qualified physicians, psychiatrists, and other medical providers. The cost of these medical services is secured by a lien on the case and will be paid out when your case settles at the end.
We Build Your Case From the Ground Up—A wrongful death case may be limited by time file a claim by the applicable STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS. Most wrongful death cases are expert intensive depending on the circumstances and facts that led up to the wrongful death in the first place. However we have the resources to employ top-notch investigative services to secure all the necessary evidence that will accurately portray what actually took place that caused the wrongful death. We take it upon ourselves to accurately re-create an accident from our expert renditions, eyewitness accounts, and by recreating the events through high tech sophisticated models and videos which will enhance and explain the circumstances that led up to the tragic death of your loved one. You deserve to know the truth and what really happened. Therefore, our technicians utilize some of the most advanced reconstruction technology to provide a persuasive physical account of the evidence of the negligence that caused the wrongful death.
We have earned an excellent reputation for our tough, aggressive representation in all accident cases—Not only is our law firm client-based we fight hard for the underdog, putting the necessary resources where they need to go to obtain the highest possible compensation and award for our wrongful death victims and their families.
If a loved one has recently died due to the negligence of a third-party, because of the actions of an employer or any other third-party, please contact the Law Offices of Michael A. Fiumara at (855) 247-3190. We can also be reached at any one of our conveniently located North Bay offices. You may contact us at the Santa Rosa office in Sonoma County at (707) 571-8600 , confidential consultation and case evaluation
—“The right attorney makes all the difference.”
