When the sudden death that has touched your life in a painful way is the result of negligence of another, by all means speak immediately to a qualified lawyer. Even if death is the result of a defective product, murder, the result of an accident in an unsafe property or neglect by health professionals, you need to aware of what your rights.
Each state has a wrongful death statute and many of them have their own quirks. However, they reflect allsimilar basic principles. Is an unlawful death of the insured person is usually four parts: that the death was caused by the defendant's conduct was that the defendant is negligent or liable for the deaths that have a surviving spouse and other family members and damages incurred as the by death.
In Georgia, juries damages for wrongful death lost on the full value of life from the perspective of the deceased. This gives the rule also means economic damageand intangible factors. Intangible assets generally represent living things such as joy, while the economic damage would be things like the value of the services and the expected lifetime earnings covered.
Full value of life is often difficult to determine and often the services of an economist is required to do this kind of projection. Ultimately, the jury is the result of the jurors vote their conscience. There are no statutory formula or limit on damages awarded in a wrongful death suitGeorgia.
What does happen is usually juries often award more value on a life if the money is suspect, a surviving spouse and minor children. In this case, the value of life, price can be lowered in order to provide value wrongful death under Georgia law. This reduction does not affect the intangible aspects of the value of the life in question.
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