Let me tell you about another heartbreaking wrongful death settlement. Heartbreaking for two reasons, as I will explain below.
A middle-aged married woman was walking to work in Geneva, Ontario County, New York. To get to work she had to cross Routes 5/20, also known as Hamilton Street. She crossed in a crosswalk, which meant she had the right of way, and vehicles traveling down Routes 5/20 had to yield to her. But the driver of an 18-wheeler, who was traveling along Routes 5/20, mowed her down. She did not survive.
Her heartbroken widower sought out a Geneva
The widower's emotional loss dwarfed his economic loss. But New York's wrongful death law turned a blind eye to all that grief, and,instead offered him only compensation for his economic losses. But he didn't even want compensation for that! He wanted compensation for his REAL loss; his emotional loss. I am sad to report that he did not get compensation for that, and therefore, he did not get justice. Chalk another one up to New York's very wrongful,
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