Paul Matiasic: When someone contacts us as a result of the loss of a loved one, the devils in the details in terms of how you go about trying to exact some type of recovery. I think it's incumbent upon clients looking at perspective lawyers to find a lawyer who is going to make sure that they investigate every possible avenue of recovery. That's vitally important especially for young families if the person who lost their life was the primary breadwinner or even secondary breadwinner upon whom the survivors relied. It's vitally important that you get someone who is able to walk a jury through what the contours of those damages are.
It goes back to having the right expert team involved. Wrongful death cases are particularly difficult because you're trying to ask a jury to award a value for human life, and the fact of the matter is, there's not any amount of money in the world that can accurately or fairly compensate these families for the loss of their loved one...
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