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Stamford Wrongful Death Lawyer: Getting Justice When Your Family Needs It Most
When Maria Santos lost her husband in a construction accident on Broad Street, she didn’t know where to turn. The bills kept coming, her kids asked when Daddy was coming home, and the company that employed him stopped returning her calls. Three months later, she walked into our Stamford office barely holding it together. Today, her family has the financial security they deserves, and the construction company has changed its safety policies to prevent another tragedy.
Losing someone because of another person’s negligence breaks families apart. You’re dealing with grief while trying to figure out how to pay the mortgage. The insurance companies send forms written in legal language you can’t understand. Meanwhile, evidence disappears and witnesses forget details. Every day that passes makes your case harder to prove.
We handle wrongful death cases in Stamford, and we know the hospitals, the courts, and the tactics insurance companies use to deny claims. Our office is two blocks from the Stamford courthouse, where we’ve fought these cases for over 20 years. We’ve seen what works and what doesn’t when families need compensation for a death that should never have happened.
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Wrongful Death Attorney in Stamford
A wrongful death claim in Connecticut gives families the right to sue when someone dies because of negligence, recklessness, or intentional harm. You can file this lawsuit even if criminal charges were never filed. The person or company responsible doesn’t need to go to jail for you to recover damages.
Connecticut law says only the executor of the deceased person’s estate can file a wrongful death lawsuit. If there’s no will, the probate court appoints an estate representative. This person files on behalf of the surviving family members who actually receive the compensation.
The damages you can recover include medical bills from treatment before death, funeral and burial costs, lost wages your family member would have earned, loss of benefits like health insurance or pension, and compensation for the loss of companionship and guidance. If the death involved extreme recklessness, punitive damages may apply to punish the wrongdoer.
You have two years from the date of death to file a wrongful death lawsuit in Connecticut. Miss this deadline, and you lose your right to compensation forever. Insurance companies know this and often delay settlement talks, hoping you’ll run out of time.
Car Accident Wrongful Death Claims
Vehicle crashes kill more people in Stamford than any other type of accident. Drunk drivers hit pedestrians on Summer Street. Distracted drivers run red lights at the I-95 exits. Speeding causes fatal crashes on the Merritt Parkway during rush hour.
After a fatal car accident, the police investigate and write a report. This report matters for your case, but it’s not the whole story. We hire accident reconstruction experts who visit the crash scene, review skid marks, analyze vehicle damage, and determine exactly what happened. Sometimes the police report gets it wrong.
Connecticut follows a modified comparative negligence rule. If your family member was partially at fault for the accident, you can still recover damages as long as they were less than 51% responsible.
The compensation gets reduced by their percentage of fault. Insurance companies jump on this and try to blame the victim to reduce what they have to pay.
We investigate every detail. We pull phone records to prove the other driver was texting. We check bar tabs to show they were drunk. We examine maintenance records to prove their brakes were faulty. The insurance company has lawyers working to deny your claim from day one. You need someone fighting just as hard for your family.
Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death
Stamford Hospital and the other medical facilities in our area provide excellent care most of the time. But doctors are human. They make mistakes. When those mistakes kill someone, families deserve answers and accountability.
Medical malpractice wrongful death cases happen when a healthcare provider’s negligence causes a patient’s death. This includes surgical errors, medication mistakes, misdiagnosis, delayed diagnosis, birth injuries, anesthesia errors, and failure to treat a serious condition.
These cases are complicated. Connecticut requires you to obtain a written opinion from a similar medical specialist who confirms the doctor’s care fell below accepted standards. You can’t just sue because the outcome was bad. You have to prove the doctor did something wrong that directly caused the death.
We work with top medical experts across the country who review the records and testify about what the doctor should have done differently. The hospital’s lawyers will bring their own experts who say everything was fine. The jury has to decide who to believe based on the evidence and testimony.
Medical malpractice cases take longer and cost more to pursue than other wrongful death claims. The hospitals have massive legal teams and fight these cases aggressively. But when a doctor’s negligence kills your mother, father, spouse, or child, you can’t let them get away with it.
Your parents worked their whole lives. They deserve dignity and proper care in their final years. When nursing homes in Stamford neglect residents or allow abuse, and that neglect causes death, we hold them responsible.