About Wrongful Death Cases

At The Law Office of Zucker & Bennett, P.C., our wrongful death lawyers handle many wrongful death cases that involve deaths from car accidents, medical malpractice, and more.

MR. ZUCKER: There are many causes of wrongful death. We've handled many wrongful death suits involving a car accident, involving a construction accident, involving-- It can be a premises accident. It could be a fall down a flight of stairs can cause a severe enough injury to cause a death. In medical malpractice cases we've handled many, many wrongful death cases and they can be due to a failure a diagnose a cancer that was very treatable. We’ve handled wrongful death cases resulting from surgeries where events occurred during the surgeries that could have been addressed, were not properly addressed, and the patient died as a result of those events. Its can be a products case where a product could malfunction and cause the death of someone. I would say for the most part, the most common causes of wrongful death are either going to be through motor vehicle accidents or through medical malpractice.