Missouri Accidental Death

Accidental Deaths in Missouri

The Hershewe Law Firm of Missouri aggressively investigates accidental death cases. Our experienced accidental death law attorneys gather all evidence to assure thorough counsel for the Missouri families of people who have died accidentally.

Accidents can be prevented.

Why is it so important that competent attorneys, like the Missouri lawyers who work with Ed Hershewe, investigate accidental death? In the United States, accidents are considered to be unexpected happenings causing loss or injuries which are not due to any fault of misconduct on the part of the person injured or killed.

Accidents are certainly unintentional, but this does not mean that accidents are not preventable. Our accidental death attorneys know that very often deaths by accident could have been prevented by common sense things like more careful safety measures, more responsible driving, good maintenance, or better product quality control.

Accidents are complicated. A series of causes leads to a catastrophic event. Accidental death attorneys know that the simple explanation of a person’s accidental death is not sufficient. No family ought to be left with questions about why and how a loved one died. Anyone who causes an accidental death ought to take responsibility. In Missouri, The Hershewe Law Firm gets the answers in accidental death.

Accidental death is far too commonplace.

The U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics reports that injuries cause approximately one out of every fourteen deaths in the United States, including three out of four deaths among adolescents and young adults. That means that about seven percent of all deaths in the United States result from accidental injury. Far more men die accidentally than women. The statistics make unintentional injury –accidents –the fifth leading cause of death in our country. In 2005, out of 54,656 deaths in Missouri; 2848 were from accidental injury.

Yet, many fatal injuries are preventable. Conscientious accidental death attorneys are adept at finding the essential causes of accidents, and they know how to apply accidental death law not only to provide for the families of those killed in preventable accidents, but to protect others from similar injuries and deaths. The Hershewe Law Firm, P.C., follows accident trends in Missouri to understand how external causes of injury and death, both mechanism and intent, are changing, and what contributes to those changes.

At every age, the majority of injury deaths are unintentional, but the risk of death from unintentional injury rises dramatically for those over 70 years of age. Persons living in rural counties also have higher risks of death caused by unintentional injuries. Falls are the leading cause of injury and death for elderly people. Middle-aged adults are more likely to die accidentally because of poisoning. But for all other age groups, except children under two, motor vehicle traffic incidents are the leading cause of injury death. Four out of every 100,000 workers over sixteen die from occupational injury. Farming, fishing, and forestry are considered dangerous occupations, but the highest numbers of fatal work injuries occur in construction, extraction, and transportation and material moving occupations. All of these occupations are important in the Missouri economy.

Accidental death takes a high toll.

Hershewe accidental death lawyers know that accidents impose a heavy burden on families and on society. Injury death and disability in the United States are estimated to cost more than $80 billion in lifetime medical care treatment costs for physical injuries and another $326 billion in lifetime lost productivity, totaling more than $400 billion for the combined economic burden of medical treatment and lost productivity. Families are innocent victims when a loved one dies accidentally. They should not suffer an economic burden. The Hershewe Law Firm, P.C. will pursue fair compensation for families.

Whether the tragedy of an accidental death occurs on the highway, at home, or in the workplace, the Missouri Hershewe Law Firm of experienced accidental death attorneys will listen sympathetically to the survivors, investigate the accident carefully, and pursue anyone whose careless, negligence or outright wrongful action caused the death to the full extent of the law.

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