What if the deceased was partially at fault?

In wrongful death cases, obviously, when somebody’s at fault but they’re no longer with us, it’s a little tricky. But it could be, there can be many different scenarios like this. And, in part, what it may do is it may take the amount of damages and reduce them by the percentage of fault that the deceased had. And it could be a car crash. Um, it could be otherwise. Um, it could be a situation even where there’s a deceased and they’re at fault, cuz I know this just happened to us, where sometimes when it comes time to assess fault, the verdict form doesn’t allow, or we can preclude by a matter of law, the deceased being on and being assessed fault.

So, as wrong as it may sound, depending on how you view the world, it can be a situation where, depending on what occurred that caused the individual to be injured and pass away, that they’re not even in a situation where they can be assessed fault. But otherwise, as long as they’re less than 50% at fault, or 50% or less at fault, you’re still going to be able to collect damages even in a scenario where someone passes away and they do have fault, no matter what occurred that caused them to sadly pass away.