Your South Carolina wrongful death lawyer understands South Carolina law

Many types of deaths can be called a wrongful death. These include construction and workplace deaths, industrial accidents, car accidents, defective products or medical equipment, burns, electrocutions and maritime deaths. You need a knowledgeable South Carolina wrongful death lawyer to handle your case and be sure you get fair and just compensation. Jim S. Adler & Associates can provide a free case evaluation. Then a skilled South Carolina wrongful death lawyer can fight for you.

A wrongful death case holds a defendant liable for another's death, even though the defendant did not cause the death deliberately or with intent to kill. Rather, a wrongful death may be a case of negligence, recklessness or even inaction which contributes to a wrongful death. Such a wrongful death case is a civil case and not a criminal case and, beyond liability, involves having survivors who have endured losses due to the wrongful death.  A trained South Carolina wrongful death lawyer can determine the best strategy for pressing such a case in the legal realm.

In a wrongful death case in South Carolina, the lawyer for the plaintiff must prove several things in court. In order to win in a wrongful death lawsuit, the plaintiff's lawyer must show that the defendant had a duty to exercise reasonable care in order to avoid a wrongful death. The plaintiff's lawyer also must prove that the defendant breached this duty due to unreasonable conduct. Your South Carolina wrongful death lawyer also must prove that the defendant's unreasonable conduct caused the wrongful death, and the defendant should have known this consequence in advance of that death.

After a wrongful death has occurred, your South Carolina wrongful death lawyer can seek a variety of monetary awards for damages, which can go to the deceased person's family. Such monetary awards can be designated to compensate losses suffered by the family in terms of lost love, companionship and comfort, as well as for emotional pain, suffering and torment as a result of the loved one's death. The courts will attempt to weigh the strength of relationships between the deceased and surviving family members.

After a wrongful death incident, your South Carolina wrongful death lawyer must act quickly and deliberately. That's because South Carolina and all states have different statutes of limitations, concerning how long you have to take legal action. These statutes depend on the nature and location of the wrongful death claim. Be sure to alert a skilled wrongful death lawyer promptly in order to ensure that you have proper time in which to pursue a wrongful death case.

DISCLAIMER: Though Jim S. Adler & Associates is not licensed in South Carolina, the Texas law firm does engage outside lawyers and local attorneys to litigate claims for South Carolina as needed.