Many personal injury law firms give generalized examples of wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases to illustrate how wrongful death settlements work.
At the Stone Rose Law, we believe in showing our prospective clients what we do for our current clients.
What follows are three examples of legal work we have done, and continue to do, to represent our Arizona clients who have lost loved ones because of the negligent acts of others.
A single mother and her two children joined friends who owned a boat to go on a lake excursion.
At one point, the boat was towing a floatie attached to the stern by a rope. Two kids under five years old, one of which was the youngest child of the single parent, were on the floatie when suddenly the rope broke.
Seeking to reassure the children, the single mom jumped into the water and began to swim out to the now-detached floatie. The boat owner, seeing the situation, decided to turn the boat around to bring it closer.
Unfortunately, the boat owner, who had put the boat engine in reverse to slow the boat down when the rope broke, neglected to take the engine out of the reverse setting. When the boat owner applied power to the engine, instead of going forward, the boat lurched backward. The engine propeller struck the woman in the water, severing one of her legs at the hip.
The single mother bled to death from her injury. Her estate (The children’s guardian) hired Stone Rose Law to seek compensation for her now-orphaned children in a wrongful death claim.
When settlement negotiations with the boat owner’s insurer began, the original policy liability limit was for only $100,000.
Our wrongful death attorneys, after a thorough investigation, were able to find additional applicable policies of insurance, but then the insurance companies tried to limit the wrongful death claim value to only $50,000 by claiming that federal maritime law governed the accident.
We successfully fought for our clients to overcome this argument. Ultimately, we reached a wrongful death settlement with the combined insurers for $2 million.
At the Stone Rose Law Firm, we represent clients in Phoenix and Maricopa County in wrongful death cases. Our personal injury attorneys have many years of combined experience in pursuing client claims to recover damages against many kinds of defendants in fatal injury accidents, including:
Through a suit under Arizona’s wrongful death statute, you can recover financial compensation for many kinds of wrongful actions by another, including:
Call us at (480) 631-3025 to talk with an experienced Arizona wrongful death lawyer. In a free consultation, we can help you to understand your rights if someone else has breached a legal duty to you or which led to a loved one’s death.
