1 / 2

Don’t the disabled deserve care? A lawyer for wrongful death questions

https://www.medlegal360.com/lawyer-for-wrongful-death/<br>Being negligent in inflicting injuries and causing death to an individual unintentionally or maliciously is considered a wrongful death. Last year in Utah, a boy was found dead inside a locked car. The facility kept quiet and was not ready to comment on the negligence from the Part of their employee. Roost services, an American Fork intellectual disability care center was negligent in taking care of an autistic boy, which ended up in his death.

medlegal360
Download Presentation

Don’t the disabled deserve care? A lawyer for wrongful death questions

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript


  1. Don’t the disabled deserve care? A lawyer for wrongful death questions Don’t the disabled deserve care? A lawyer for wrongful death questions  https://www.medlegal360.com/lawyer‐for‐wrongful‐death/  Being negligent in inflicting injuries and causing death to an individual unintentionally or maliciously is  considered a wrongful death. Last year in Utah, a boy was found dead inside a locked car. The facility  kept quiet and was not ready to comment on the negligence from the Part of their employee. Roost  services, an American Fork intellectual disability care center was negligent in taking care of an autistic  boy, which ended up in his death. He had wandered away from the facility twice before, which shows  the sheer negligence from the part of the facility. On July 21 2021, Joshua, a 11‐year‐old boy was picked  from his foster home and was left behind in front of the facility, inside a locked car. Three hours later he  was found dead inside the car.  lawyerforwrongfuldeath   Why more care facilities in the U.S. face wrongful death claims?  https://www.medlegal360.com/lawyer‐for‐wrongful‐death/  Being negligent in inflicting injuries and causing death to an individual unintentionally or maliciously is  considered a wrongful death. Last year in Utah, a boy was found dead inside a locked car. The facility  kept quiet and was not ready to comment on the negligence from the Part of their employee.  Roost services, an American Fork intellectual disability care center was negligent in taking care of an  autistic boy, which ended up in his death. He had wandered away from the facility twice before, which  shows the sheer negligence from the part of the facility. On July 21 2021, Joshua, a 11‐year‐old boy was  picked from his foster home and was left behind in front of the facility, inside a locked car. The staff  went inside forgetting to take him along. The boy was inside the car in hot summer day for three hours.  When the staff realized that Joshua was not inside and went back to the car in search of him, it was too  late. Joshua succumbed to death in the heat inside the locked car fighting for his life for hours‐long  struggle. The police charged the negligent facility and the staff with child abuse homicide and  obstruction of justice. However, after a seven‐month‐long investigation, the case was declined as the  death was unintentional.   Peter Mifflin, the lawyer for wrongful death on behalf of the victim’s family, proceeded with a wrongful  death claim. He claimed that though the death was unintentional, it was the duty of the facility to take  care of the boy. Letting him die a horrible death cannot be justified as unintentional. The negligence of  the facility could be seen in the two earlier incidents when the boy wandered off the facility.  In July 2022, the facility closed the case with a secret settlement and the wrongful death case was  dismissed. Mifflin hopes this case would be an eye‐opener to improve the care given by such facilities.  Wrongful death cases not only get the victim’s family economic and non‐economic damages but  punitive damages as well.   The lawyers for wrongful death will analyze the case and based the statutes of limitation in the  particular case, they would proceed with the claim. The medical records of the victim, the autopsy  reports, and other evidence can be solid proofs in establishing the wrongful death claim. If you have lost  your dear one to someone else’s negligence, contact a wrongful death attorney to proceed with a claim. 

  2. Getting the medical records reviewed by a medical record review company would make your wrongful Getting the medical records reviewed by a medical record review company would make your wrongful  death claim strong and ensure your reparation.   lawyerforwrongfuldeath  lawyersforwrongfuldeath  attorneysforwrongfuldeath  damagesforwrongfuldeath  wrongfuldeathclaim  wrongfuldeathlaw   negligence   negligenceinnursing   

More Related