Who Can Bring a Wrongful Death Suit?

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when somebody dies it’s the person who
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dies who generally has the right to
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bring a lawsuit for their injuries so
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when they die there is nobody who has
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that right at that moment that is why
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you have to do what’s called raise an
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estate when you raise an estate somebody
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is appointed the administrator or the
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executive of that state frequently if
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someone has a will an execu of the
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estate is named in that will it’ll be
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the spouse or a child or a parent if
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there is no will then there is a a law
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called The Law of intestacy that
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determines who a court May appoint to be
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in charge of the estate to be the
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administrator of the estate usually
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that’s a spouse but sometimes that is
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the children or the parents or even the
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siblings of the deceased person once
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somebody is appointed the administrator
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or the executive of the estate of the
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person who died that individual then has
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the right as the administrator of the
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estate to bring the lawsuit on behalf of
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the dead person and that administrator
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will represent both the estate meaning
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the estate has certain claims like the
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pain and suffering the patient went
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through before they died as well as the
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rights of the beneficiaries meaning uh
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if there are minor children those
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children have lost their parent there
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are certain non-economic claims that
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there entitled to for losing a parent
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and the administrator will bring all
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those claims uh as the representative of
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the estate