San Juan Capistrano Wrongful Death Lawyer
San Juan Capistrano Wrongful Death Attorney
The sudden loss of a loved one can be devastating. If your loved one’s passing resulted from another person’s negligence, you can face emotional pain and financial hardship. A San Juan Capistrano wrongful death lawyer can help you navigate the legal process and fight for your deserved compensation.
Wrongful Death Claims in San Juan Capistrano
Wrongful death claims in San Juan Capistrano are legal actions brought by surviving family members when someone dies. These cases revolve around the negligence or wrongdoing of another person or entity. These claims can arise from various incidents, such as:
- Car accidents
- Truck accidents
- Motorbike accidents
- Pedestrian accidents
- Medical malpractice cases
- Workplace accidents and injuries
- Defective products, like faulty brakes on cars
If negligence caused your loved one’s death, Easton & Easton, LLP, can study the details of your situation before advising you on what steps should be taken.
What Our San Juan Capistrano Wrongful Death Attorneys Can Do for You
It can be very painful to unexpectedly lose someone you love. When you hire Easton & Easton, LLP, we can provide compassionate legal representation that respects your loved one’s life as we fight for justice. We can help you in more ways than just standing next to you in court.
Investigating the Cause of Death
Our legal team can investigate the situation to determine what caused your loved one’s passing and who is responsible for it. This investigation can involve gathering evidence from the scene, such as tire marks, debris, or malfunctioning parts.
We can also get a copy of the police report to get insight into what the officer observed and any witness statements made at the accident site. Furthermore, we can request medical records concerning your loved one to discover how severe their injuries were and how these injuries contributed to their death.
Determining Damages
With assistance from financial professionals, we can evaluate the economic losses you have incurred due to your family member’s passing. The damages we seek can include:
- Hospital bills. These costs are linked with medical care for your family member after their accident, including ambulance services, emergency room treatment, hospitalization, surgery, medication, and therapy.
- Wage loss. The earnings your relative would have gotten are essential to the amount of your damages. This number factors in expected future gains and possible career promotions.
- Funeral and burial costs. Expenditures related to burial plots, tombstones, and overall services matter, too.
Handling Negotiations With Insurance Companies
We can communicate with insurance companies during your vulnerable period to ensure that they do not take advantage of you. Insurance carriers can use strategies to deny or delay claims, causing bad situations to become worse. Our negotiators can battle to ensure fair settlements that reflect the actual worth of your case.
We can also review every insurance policy available, from your loved one’s to any relevant car insurance policy. Subsequently, we can aggressively negotiate with each insurer to obtain the maximum payment for all their policies.
Providing Legal Representation in Court
Our firm can represent you in court if negotiations fail to yield a reasonable settlement amount. We can seek to obtain your optimal settlement and damage recovery. Our team can ensure that you receive what you deserve.
FAQs for Wrongful Death Lawyers
Q: Who Gets the Money in a Wrongful Death Claim in California?
A: The money in a wrongful death claim in California goes to the statutory beneficiaries. These beneficiaries can include the deceased’s spouse, domestic partner, children, or financial dependents. While the spouse, if applicable, is the primary beneficiary, other family members also have a compensation entitlement.
The court determines the specific compensation distribution based on the beneficiaries’ financial needs and former dependence on the deceased.
Q: How Long Do You Have to File a Wrongful Death Claim in California?
A: Knowing the length of time you have to file a wrongful death claim in California determines whether you can rightfully seek compensation for your loved one’s death. While the statute of limitations matters, it is wise to act promptly due to strict deadlines. Hiring an attorney can ensure that you meet each deadline and successfully make it through the complicated legal process.
Q: Can You Get Punitive Damages for Wrongful Death in California?
A: Whether you can get punitive damages for wrongful death in California depends on the factors present in your case. A court can award punitive and compensatory damages in some wrongful death cases. A court adds punitive consequences to punish the at-fault party for conduct that they would seek to deter in the future.
Punitive damages require a higher standard of proof and can be challenging to receive. When you hire us as your personal injury attorney, we can assess your case to determine if these damages are a viable option.
Q: What Is the Cap on Wrongful Death in California?
A: California has no cap on most forms of wrongful death compensation, unlike some states. The only exception is noneconomic damages in a medical malpractice case. In other situations, the jury can award whatever monetary damages that they believe to be suitable for your losses. These include:
- Medical expenses
- Lost income
- Future earning potential
- Loss of companionship
- Funeral costs
- Pain and suffering experienced by the deceased and the loved ones they left behind
Help in Your Challenging Time
Losing a loved one will never be easy. When they are taken from you through a wrongful death, it can stay heart-wrenching forever. Understanding how or why this happened to your loved one can be difficult, but things can improve.
While getting compensated for losing someone dear is vital, no amount of money can bring them back to life. Our objective goes beyond monetary recovery alone. We want to help you through the emotional turmoil attached to such a loss.
At Easton & Easton, LLP, we want you to have the space to mourn your loved one properly without wondering how you will pay their medical bills or funeral costs. You need time to grieve instead of thinking about how you will survive or need to change your life by getting a job to compensate for lost income. We are here for you in your fight for wrongful death compensation. Contact us today for help in this challenging time.
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Easton & Easton is honored to have been chosen anew each year since 2014 by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers as one of the "Best Law Firms" for the Southern California Metro Area.
Easton & Easton is honored to have been chosen by the LA Times Reader's Choice Poll as "The Best Personal Injury Law Firm in Orange County" for 2018.
Doug and Brian Easton have been selected as Top 100 Trial Lawyers for California each year since 2014 — honors given to less than 1% of attorneys.
Doug and Matt Easton have each been chosen as one of The Best Lawyers in America for Plaintiff's Personal Injury Litigation. Best Lawyers lists attorneys who have earned selection through exemplary legal work that attracts the notice of their colleagues. Lawyers cannot buy their way onto this list.
Brian and Matt Easton were recently honored for their efforts in securing a $1,850,000 verdict for a client in 2016, which was selected as one of the Top 50 Personal Injury Verdicts in California by TopVerdict.com.
Doug and Brian have each been selected by Super Lawyers, an honor given to less than 5% of attorneys. Matt Easton has been selected among Super Lawyers' Up-and-Coming Top 25 in Orange County and Top 100 in Southern Califonia, an honor given to less than 1% of attorneys under 40 years old.
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Doug Easton has held the “AV Preeminent” Rating for over 30 years and Matt Easton received this prestigious distinction in 2015. The "AV Preeminent" rating is the highest possible rating for both legal ability and ethical standards, and is based on the legal profession’s oldest peer review rating system, dating back to 1887.
Doug, Brian, and Matt Easton have all been chosen as one of the "10 Best" Personal Injury Attorneys in Southern California each year since 2015 based on client satisfaction, an honor given to less than 1% of personal injury attorneys - and Easton & Easton houses three of them.
Brian Easton was selected to the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) in 2015. ABOTA is one of the most premier associations of trial attorneys and judges, requiring a certain number of jury trials as lead counsel and approval by a majority vote of the ABOTA board.
Matt Easton has been selected each year since 2014 as one of the Top 40 Trial Lawyers Under 40 for California by The National Trial Lawyers — an honor given to less than 1% of attorneys.
Doug and Matt Easton have each been chosen as one of The Best Lawyers in America for Plaintiff's Personal Injury Litigation. Best Lawyers lists attorneys who have earned selection through exemplary legal work that attracts the notice of their colleagues. Lawyers cannot buy their way onto this list.
Both Doug and Matt Easton have been selected as Top Personal Injury Attorneys by Avvo with scores of 10 out of 10 based on their skill, experience, results, peer evaluations, and client reviews.
Matt Easton has been selected as one of the Top 10 Personal Injury Attorneys Under 40 in California for 2015 by the National Association of Personal Injury Attorneys — an honor given to less than 1% of personal injury attorneys under the age of 40.
Doug, Brian, and Matt Easton have all been selected by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel among the Nation's Top One Percent of Attorneys each year since 2017.
“We look for the human story behind every injury or wrongful death. We prepare our cases for trial; reaching out to the jury with the most compelling evidence possible for the best verdict possible. Insurance companies know this and come to the table prepared to negotiate in good faith. Call us to see how we can turn your story into fair compensation.”
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I can’t say enough amazing things about my experience with Travis Easton at Easton & Easton. Travis and his entire team (Katie, Amy, Dee, Michelle, & Araceli) are phenomenal. It provided me a lot of comfort to know I was being so well taken care of. I was especially impressed that every document for the case was perfectly written and specific to me. Nothing was generic, which shows the level of care and attention they put into each individual case. I had such a great experience and would highly recommend Travis Easton and his firm to anyone going through a personal injury. Travis took a bad situation and made the best of it for me. Thank you again, I’m forever grateful!!
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I was in a pretty bad car accident and decided to have Easton & Easton represent me, Travis Easton to be specific. Travis Easton and his paralegal made the whole process effortless. They were so understanding and helpful! The entire thing was a gigantic mess, yet Travis managed to make it run like clockwork. I would HIGHLY recommend Easton & Easton! If you are ever in need of a personal defense attorney Easton & Easton is the firm to represent you!
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My life changed in a matter of seconds after a catastrophic spinal cord injury that left me disabled. Brian Easton and his team worked on my case non stop for 3 years and provided me the justice I deserved. I couldn’t have been more content.
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My sincere thanks to Brian, Matt, Travis, Doug, Gabriel and Amera. They are what they are because of their dedication to provide high quality and professional service to their clients.
Brian Easton and his team, Gabe Mendoza and Amera Hajali, helped me during a very difficult time in my life. I had a significant injury from a car accident, and wound up seeking out Easton & Easton when I was having difficulties getting help from my doctors. The Easton team took a lot of stress off of me while acting as my advocates to help me get the care I needed, and saw my case all the way through to a healthy settlement.
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