Serious Injury and Wrongful Death
Many serious injuries result in death. There are limits to the amount of physical stress that any system of the human body can take before it fails. When any of the body’s core systems—whether circulatory, digestive, endocrine, immune, lymphatic, muscular, nervous, reproductive, respiratory, skeletal, or urinary—are violated by severe physical trauma, the result may be death.
Types of wrongful death injuries
When these life-destroying stresses have been imposed by the negligent actions of another party, the families of wrongful death victims contact us, a Missouri wrongful death law firm. Some of the types of serious injuries that ultimately prove fatal and result in a wrongful death suit include the following:
Severe blood loss
Many injuries from accidents involve blood loss, which compromises the cardiovascular system. The primary function of the cardiovascular system is to continually pump blood through arteries and veins to the different parts of the body, distributing life-giving oxygen. Human survival is impossible without an intact cardiovascular system. When injuries severely damage this system, death is inevitable unless the damage can be repaired quickly.
Burn injuries
The skin serves several life-sustaining purposes, such as protection to underlying layers from exposure, regulating body temperature, and housing a vast network of nerves that control sensations such as temperature, touch, pressure, and pain. When an injury results in a severe burn, the skin is dangerously compromised. A third-degree burn—the most serious kind—affects all the layers of the skin. Sadly, many severe burn injury victims are not able to survive the damage. Without the skin’s protection, the body often succumbs to deadly infection—causing death.
Fatal birth injuries
Many types of severe birth injuries result from complications during pregnancy, labor, or child birth. When these complications result in death and when they could have been prevented if proper medical protocol had been adhered to, a doctor, nurse, or hospital may be held liable for negligence in a wrongful death civil lawsuit. Examples include head injuries, hemorrhage, paralysis, fatal reactions to medications, deadly infections, and suffocation.
Injuries to internal organs
Many of the internal organs are critical to human survival. Organ damage is often difficult to repair and may fail in spite of extensive hospitalization and multiple surgeries. Severe trauma to the kidneys, spleen, bowels, liver, heart, or lungs can prove fatal.
Injuries resulting in wrongful death in Missouri
When someone suffers an accidental death in Missouri, the loved ones are legally permitted under tort law to pursue those who are responsible for the wrongful death. These victims rely on help from a wrongful death attorney in Missouri, a lawyer whose practice focuses on representing the surviving victims who have lost a loved one from the negligent actions of others and seek monetary damages.
If you have lost a family member, contact The Hershewe Law Firm, P.C. to consult with a Missouri wrongful death lawyer. In this free consultation, one of our Missouri wrongful death attorneys analyze your situation, study the facts that you are able to present, and determine the possibility of seeking justice through a lawsuit. Often the only way to be sufficiently compensated for your loss is to seek a court verdict and award. With the help of a skilled wrongful death law firm in Missouri, an out-of-court settlement with the negligent party may be possible as well.
