Wrongful Death

Each state sets its own rules for limits on damage awards for wrongful death claims. Neither New Jersey nor Pennsylvania legislation imposes overarching caps on damages in a wrongful death lawsuit. In other words, you can fully recover or, in legal terms, “be made whole” again in most cases. That being said, there are some …

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In both New Jersey and Pennsylvania, wrongful death distribution occurs either according to the deceased’s will or pursuant to the state’s intestacy statutes if there is no will. Intestacy laws, also called descent and distribution laws, are the statutory and case laws related to inheritance that detail which beneficiaries are entitled to property of an …

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