Three Things to Keep in Mind About a Wrongful Death Claim Against a Hospital

If a loved one has recently died at a hospital, you may be considering suing the hospital because you suspect that a doctor, nurse or someone else on the hospital staff played a part in your loved one 's death. Although you should not be discouraged from exploring the possibility of a lawsuit, there a certain aspects of wrongful death case relating to a hospital that make it different from other circumstances of wrongful deaths. The following are three important things to understand.

Mistakes made by hospital staff are not necessarily negligent
The key to understanding wrongful death is in determining whether the death could have been prevented with the knowledge