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If someone you love has been the victim of wrongful death in Louisiana, you may want to have the facts reviewed by a lawyer. Wrongful death occurs when a person is killed as a result of the negligence or wanton act of another. Louisiana's wrongful death statute is different from every other state's wrongful death action. Although all cases depend on the specific facts, here are some of the past wrongful death decisions in Louisiana:

 

Date Facts Decision (may be subject to appeal)
8/9/2005

The Estate and Family of Walter Graves Jr. sued Graphic Packaging International, Inc. for the wrongful death of Mr. Graves on a products liability theory claiming that the defendant exposed Mr. Graves to asbestosis containing products without warning him of the dangers posed by the asbestosis containing products over a long period of time with the result that he developed mesothelioma (lung cancer) and died prematurely.

Plaintiffs' verdict for $4.5 million
7/29/2005

Travis Stewart, the father of Mya George, sued Louisiana Department of Social Services on a wrongful death theory alleging that the Department was grossly negligent in failing to protect his child from abuse by Jessie White, the child's stepfather. White beat Mya to death in 2003 and was later convicted of murder and serving a life sentence. Mya's mother, Melissa Turnage, pled guilty to cruelty to a juvenile and was placed on probation. The defenses asserted by the State are not available other than it appears that the State claimed that Jessie White and Melissa Turnage were the sole cause of the child's death and that Department of Social Service employees assigned to the case did everything they could to protect the child from abuse.

$8 million
3/13/2004

Wrongful death claims by the families and estate of Angela Gauthier, 36, her 3-year-old daughter, Claire, her 3-year-old nephew, Brennan Odendahl, and Gauthier's mother, 56-year-old Linda Landry. They all died when the van in which they were riding was hit head-on by tractor trailer that veered cross the median after it was hit by another vehicle whose driver grabbed for a flyaway hit. Edward Trusclair's rig, owned by Divinity Transportation, hit a truck owned by the Salvation Army and was being driven by Alton Wilson. The plaintiffs' claimed that Trusclair's vehicle was traveling 25 mph over the speed limit at the time of the collision.

$4,100,000

 

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