What is a Notable Wrongful Death Case You’ve Worked On?

On a journey back from watching the Cincinnati Reds, one of my clients heading back to his church in Tennessee stopped at a Skyline Chili restaurant. There was a short rain shower. They were crowded underneath an awning outside of the Skyline Chile waiting to get back on their coach. Unknown to my client, there was a boot brush that had been secured next to the door. He couldn’t see it. It was in the strangest of places. He tripped over it, fell, hit his head, and died several days later as a result of the injury.

We learned about the case from his son. He’d come to us, and his biggest concern, how is his mother going to cope? And the decedent, the husband, was caring for his wife. They were both older. She was a little older than him. and without her caregiver, she couldn’t live alone anymore. So, she lost her husband, she lost her home, she lost everything.

It became our job to explain that to the defendants so that they could understand the human value, not just of the life that was lost, but of the life that remained that was ruined.