Sometimes a person’s negligence causes a traumatic accident in which someone else dies. If this happens to your loved one, you must process your own grief and also care for the family members left behind. Your family may be eligible to file a wrongful death action; however, under personal injury law, a survival action is another option that may be available.
Ponce Law has more than three decades of experience advocating for families left reeling by the untimely deaths of loved ones caused by others’ negligence or recklessness. Our wrongful death attorneys understand the stress you are under, and we want to help. A Nashville survival actions lawyer from our firm could meet with you and explain your family’s available options.
A survival action allows a representative of the deceased to pursue a personal injury claim that the deceased could have made had they lived. For instance, if a drunk driver injured your loved one, negligence could have been established by showing the drunk driver acted irresponsibly and caused an accident. The deceased person’s estate could collect any personal injury award the victim would have received if they had survived. This award would then be distributed according to their will or under Tennessee law if there is no will.
Wrongful death claims are similar, but they focus on the losses suffered by the family left behind. Survival actions focus on the deceased person’s losses caused by the negligent act before they died. To navigate the complex legalities surrounding survival actions, your family may need a Nashville attorney. Ponce Law is the dominant personal injury firm in the city, with more than 30 years of experience aggressively pursuing justice for families like yours.
Survival actions recover money for the losses the deceased person could have won. They also hold the reckless person who caused the losses accountable. These actions award money for:
When you put your trust in a lawyer to file a survival action in Nashville, you want to know they are working in your family’s best interests. Ponce Law is the only law firm in middle Tennessee to receive the Better Business Bureau’s Torch Award for ethical commerce and has repeatedly been voted the city’s Best Law Firm by The Tennessean’s Best of Music City Awards.
Select family members bring wrongful death claims, but the deceased person’s estate files survival actions, generally through a personal representative the court appoints. The representative can be a family member and is often the person named in the will as the executor. The money awarded in a survival action is paid to the estate and distributed to those the deceased person names in their will. If there is no will, the estate distributes the awards to the victim’s heirs as determined by state law, beginning with spouses and children.
Our attorneys at Ponce Law in Nashville are experienced advocates who could guide you through every step of the survival actions process.
When someone else commits an act that injures another and the victim dies, family members are left angry and grieving. Our compassionate attorneys have consoled our local neighbors in this situation before, and we are available when your family needs us.
Our goal is twofold: win the most compensation for your deceased loved one’s estate and hold the responsible party accountable for their actions. Call a Nashville survival actions lawyer at Ponce Law now and let us get to work for you.
