The Impact of Wrongful Death Suits
March 31, 2008 15:22

How impacting are wrongful death lawsuits? In some cases the impact of a wrongful death suit can be minimal, but in other more high profile cases wrongful death suits can send a ripple through an industry. For example, the various lawsuits that spawned from negligently manufactured automobiles in the 1960's and 1970's led to a significant increase in safety standards. The automobile manufacturers simply do not want to get hammered by a variety of lawsuits so if one manufacturer is hit with millions of dollars in judgments then the other manufacturers will follow in suit. So, it would not be hyperbole to say that wrongful death cases do not have significant impacts on the private sector.