Syracuse Wrongful Death Lawyers

Losing someone you love is hard enough without also having to think about lawyers, courts, and deadlines. If you are reading this because a husband, wife, parent, child, or sibling died from someone else’s carelessness, we are sorry. Nothing a court awards will undo what happened, and no one at this firm will pretend otherwise. What a wrongful death claim can do is establish on the record who was responsible and recover, in financial terms, part of what your family lost when that person was taken from you.

Porter Law Group represents families across New York State, from Syracuse and Central New York to Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, and New York City. We handle the estate paperwork, the investigation, the insurance carriers, and the litigation if it comes to that, so your family can spend this time on each other instead of on paperwork. There is no charge to talk with us, and we take wrongful death cases on a contingency fee basis, so there is no fee unless we win.

Why Choose Porter Law Group for a New York Wrongful Death Claim

A wrongful death case in New York is not an ordinary injury case with sadder facts. It runs on its own statute, it cannot be filed by a grieving relative acting on their own, it is measured by a damages standard narrower than most families expect, and it carries a deadline shorter than the one for a routine injury claim. Families who learn those rules late often find that choices were quietly closed off while they were still making funeral arrangements.

When a Wrongful Death Case Needs a Lawyer

Not every death, even a sudden or shocking one, is the result of legal fault. It is worth speaking with an attorney when any of the following describes your situation:

• The death followed a crash, a fall, a workplace incident, a medical error, or a product that failed.
• No estate has been opened, and no one has been formally appointed to act on your loved one’s behalf.
• An adjuster has already called, asked for a recorded statement, or offered money before anyone knew what happened.
• A city, county, school district, hospital authority, or public transit system may be involved.
• Someone is being prosecuted criminally for the death, and your family has been told to wait until that is over.
• More than one person or company may share responsibility, such as a driver and the employer whose truck they were driving, or a contractor and the owner of the property.
• Anyone has asked a member of your family to sign something.

Statewide Reach With a Syracuse Base

Porter Law Group is headquartered in Syracuse and maintains six offices across New York State. That matters in a wrongful death case because the machinery is local. The estate is opened in the Surrogate’s Court of the county where your loved one lived, and the lawsuit is filed in the Supreme Court of the county connected to the death. Accident reports, autopsy and medical examiner findings, and municipal files each sit with agencies that have their own way of handling requests. Knowing how a particular county moves is often the difference between a claim that is ready on time and one still waiting on paperwork.

How We Handle Wrongful Death Cases

We start by getting your family standing to act, because nothing moves until someone is appointed. In parallel we investigate, requesting records, locating witnesses, and preserving physical evidence before it is repaired, sold, or discarded. We work with economists when the financial loss to a household needs to be calculated rather than estimated. You will speak with the attorney handling your case. Read our client testimonials, review our case results, and meet the team on the Attorneys and Staff page.

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How New York Wrongful Death Law Works

New York’s wrongful death statute is Estates, Powers and Trusts Law 5-4.1. It allows a claim where a death was caused by a wrongful act, neglect, or default, against a person who would have been legally answerable to your loved one had they survived. That last part is the heart of it. The question the law asks is whether the person who died could have sued if the injury had not been fatal. If the answer is yes, the estate may pursue the claim in their place.

What Must Be Proven

Because the claim stands in the shoes of the injury claim your loved one never got to bring, it is proven the same way an injury case is proven. Four things have to be established:

• A duty of care. The defendant owed your loved one an obligation to act with reasonable care, such as the duty every driver owes other people on the road or the duty a hospital owes a patient.
• A breach of that duty. Something the defendant did, or failed to do, fell below what reasonable care required.
• Causation. That failure led to the death, not merely to some unrelated harm.
• Losses to survivors. The death produced measurable losses to the family members the law recognizes.

Only the Estate’s Personal Representative May File

This is the rule that surprises families most, and it is worth stating plainly. In New York, a wrongful death lawsuit is not brought by the widow, the widower, the parents, or the children. It is brought by the personal representative of the deceased person’s estate, meaning the executor named in a will or the administrator appointed by the Surrogate’s Court when there is no will. A spouse or a child very often becomes that representative, but they act in that role and not simply as family.

The practical consequence is that a family cannot file anything until the Surrogate’s Court has appointed someone. That process takes time, it requires documents that grieving families do not have at hand, and it can become complicated when relatives disagree about who should serve. Starting it early is one of the few things that is entirely within your control. If an appointed executor refuses to bring the wrongful death action, the law allows the family members entitled to the recovery to have an administrator appointed to pursue it instead, so a reluctant executor is not the end of the matter.

Our article on the most common mistakes families make when filing a wrongful death claim in New York covers the appointment process and the traps around it in more detail.

Who Actually Receives the Recovery

Although the representative files the case, the money does not belong to that person or to the estate generally. Under Estates, Powers and Trusts Law 5-4.4, damages recovered in a wrongful death action are held exclusively for the decedent’s distributees, and they are divided among those people in proportion to the financial loss each of them suffered. Distributees are the relatives who would inherit under New York’s rules when someone dies without a will, which in most families means a surviving spouse, children, or parents.

Two details are worth knowing. Where someone leaves a surviving spouse and surviving parents but no children, 5-4.4 treats the parents as distributees for purposes of dividing a wrongful death recovery. And reasonable funeral expenses, when they are part of what was recovered, are deducted from the recovery and applied to those costs rather than shared out.

Because the division follows financial loss rather than family sentiment, the shares are not automatically equal. A young child who depended entirely on a parent’s income and an adult child living independently do not stand in the same position. When family members disagree about the split, the Surrogate’s Court decides.

Deaths Before Birth

New York does not recognize a wrongful death claim on behalf of a fetus who dies before being born, even where negligence clearly caused the loss. This puts New York out of step with a number of other states, and it is painful law to explain to a family that has just been through a stillbirth.

It is not the whole picture. A mother may bring her own claim for the emotional harm she suffered where medical negligence caused a stillbirth, and where an infant is born alive and then dies, an ordinary wrongful death claim is available. If your family is in this situation, those distinctions matter enormously and are worth reviewing with an attorney rather than assuming the door is closed. Our birth injury practice handles these cases.

The Two Separate Claims a Family May Have

Most families think of a single lawsuit. New York law usually gives rise to two distinct claims out of the same death, compensating different people for different things. The split explains a great deal about how these cases are valued.

The Wrongful Death Claim

The first claim belongs to the survivors. It asks what your loved one’s death cost the family financially, in lost income, lost support, and lost services. It is brought under 5-4.1 and the recovery is distributed under 5-4.4. This is the claim people mean when they say wrongful death.

The Survival Claim for Conscious Pain and Suffering

The second claim belongs to your loved one. Under Estates, Powers and Trusts Law 11-3.2, a cause of action for injury to a person is not lost because that person has died. The claim survives, and the personal representative may bring or continue it on the estate’s behalf. This is known as a survival action.

What it compensates is what your loved one personally endured between the moment of injury and the moment of death, including physical pain, and, where the evidence supports it, the awareness and fear of impending death. It also covers medical expenses and lost earnings incurred during that interval. Where death was instantaneous, there may be nothing to recover on this claim. Where someone survived a crash for hours or lived for months after a missed diagnosis, the survival claim can be a substantial part of what the family recovers, and it is often the only place in a New York case where pain and suffering is compensated at all.

Proving it takes specific evidence. Paramedic run sheets, emergency department notes, statements from bystanders who spoke with the person, nursing records describing responsiveness, and medical opinion about whether someone was conscious and able to experience pain all bear on it. This is a category of proof that disappears quickly if no one collects it. Our article on how pain and suffering is evaluated in New York injury cases explains the underlying concepts.

Why the Two Are Filed Together

The claims are pleaded in one lawsuit but remain legally distinct, and the money from each is treated differently. A wrongful death recovery goes to the distributees. A survival recovery belongs to the estate and passes under the will or, without one, the rules of intestacy, which means it can reach people who are not distributees and can be exposed to estate creditors. A settlement that does not separate the two carefully can create real problems for a family later.

New York’s Pecuniary Loss Standard

This section is the one we most often wish we did not have to deliver, and we would rather you hear it from us early than discover it in a mediation. Estates, Powers and Trusts Law 5-4.3 limits a wrongful death award to fair and just compensation for the pecuniary injuries resulting from the death to the people for whose benefit the action is brought. Pecuniary means financial. New York, whose wrongful death framework dates to the nineteenth century, remains among the most restrictive states in the country on this point.

Families often ask whether that rule is changing. The reform effort is called the Grieving Families Act, and versions of it have passed the legislature more than once. It would allow compensation for grief and anguish and for the loss of love, society, comfort, and companionship, and it would widen the circle of family members who can recover. As of 2026 no version has been signed into law, so the pecuniary standard described here still governs. We follow the effort closely and cover it in our guide to New York wrongful death damages.

What Counts as a Pecuniary Injury

The recoverable categories are real and, properly documented, they are not small. They include:

• The financial support your loved one would have provided over a working lifetime, including wages, raises, benefits, and pension or retirement contributions.
• The value of household services the person performed, such as childcare, cooking, home and vehicle maintenance, and care for an elderly or disabled family member. Work that was never paid still has an established economic value.
• For surviving children, the loss of a parent’s nurture, guidance, and instruction. New York treats this as a pecuniary loss even though it is plainly about more than money, and it is often the most significant element in a case involving young children.
• Reasonable expenses of medical aid, nursing, and attention connected to the injury that caused the death, which 5-4.3 names specifically.
• Reasonable funeral expenses.
• Interest on the amount recovered, running from the date of death, which 5-4.3 requires be added to the award.

What New York Does Not Compensate

A wrongful death award in New York does not compensate survivors for grief, anguish, or emotional suffering. It does not compensate a husband or wife for the loss of companionship, or a child for the loss of a parent’s love as distinct from that parent’s guidance. The sorrow itself, which is the entire substance of the loss for most families, is not something New York’s wrongful death statute assigns a value to.

Families find this hard to accept, and they should. We tell clients about it at the first meeting because a family that understands the standard can make informed decisions, while a family that does not will feel that the legal system measured their loss and found it minor. It did not measure the loss at all. It measured something much narrower and left the rest alone.

Why the Economic Proof Carries So Much Weight

Because the recoverable losses are defined in financial terms, the quality of the financial proof largely determines the outcome. That means tax returns, pay records, employment history, union and benefit statements, evidence of promotions or training that would have raised future earnings, and testimony about what the person actually did for the household day to day. In cases involving a homemaker, a retired grandparent raising grandchildren, or someone who had recently changed careers, careful economic work is what stops a defense expert from characterizing a life as producing little measurable loss.

The survival claim, discussed above, is the other reason this matters. Because pain and suffering is generally unavailable to survivors on the wrongful death claim, the conscious suffering of the person who died is frequently where a significant portion of the value sits. Our article on how compensation is calculated in New York wrongful death cases goes through the mechanics.

No attorney can tell you what a case is worth before reviewing the records, and anyone who quotes a figure at a first phone call is guessing. What we can do at that first conversation is tell you which categories apply to your family and what proof each one will require.

Types of Wrongful Death Cases We Handle

Any conduct that would have supported an injury claim can support a wrongful death claim when it proves fatal. The cases we see most often across New York include:

• Car accidents caused by speeding, impairment, distraction, or a driver running a light, along with fatal commercial truck crashes and motorcycle collisions. We maintain dedicated pages on fatal truck accident claims and fatal motorcycle accident claims.
• Medical malpractice, including surgical errors, medication and anesthesia errors, failure to diagnose, and delayed treatment of a condition that was survivable when it should have been caught.
• Construction and workplace fatalities, including falls from height, scaffold and ladder collapses, electrocutions, trench failures, and being struck by equipment or falling material.
• Nursing home neglect and abuse, including untreated pressure injuries, dehydration and malnutrition, unsafe staffing, medication errors, and unwitnessed falls.
• Premises liability deaths, including falls on poorly maintained property, fires, drownings, and assaults enabled by inadequate security. Our slip and fall practice covers the property maintenance issues that underlie many of these cases.
• Defective and dangerous products, from vehicles and machinery to household goods and medical devices.
• Pedestrian and bicycle fatalities, which frequently involve roadway design and visibility questions in addition to driver conduct.
• Toxic exposure deaths, including occupational exposures whose consequences appear many years later.
• Deaths following a severe traumatic brain injury, where the person survived the original incident and died of its consequences.

Fatal workplace accidents deserve a specific note. Workers’ compensation generally bars a claim against the employer, but it does not bar a claim against anyone else whose negligence contributed, such as a general contractor, a property owner, a subcontractor, or the manufacturer of the equipment involved. Families are sometimes told that workers’ compensation is the end of it. Often it is not.

Who Can Be Held Responsible

One of the first things an investigation establishes is how many parties are actually in the picture, because the obvious defendant is rarely the only one and is sometimes not the one with meaningful insurance.

Individuals

Drivers, property owners, physicians and other clinicians, and people who cause a death through a deliberate act can all be defendants. A civil claim against someone who acted intentionally proceeds regardless of what happens in criminal court, though whether insurance responds to intentional conduct is a separate question that shapes strategy.

Companies and Institutions

Employers can be responsible for what their workers do on the job, and separately for their own failures in hiring, training, supervision, and maintenance. Trucking companies, hospitals and medical groups, nursing home operators, manufacturers, contractors, and property management companies all carry commercial coverage far larger than an individual’s policy. Identifying an institutional defendant early frequently determines whether a family recovers anything approaching the actual loss.

Government Agencies and Public Entities

Cities, counties, towns, villages, school districts, housing authorities, public hospitals, and transit systems can be liable for wrongful death, in cases involving dangerous road design, failed maintenance, unsafe public property, transit operations, or care at a public facility.

Claims against public entities carry an extra procedural step that traps families constantly. Before suing, a formal notice of claim generally must be served on the entity, and the window for doing so is dramatically shorter than the deadline for the lawsuit itself. In a wrongful death case that clock ordinarily starts when the estate’s representative is appointed rather than on the date of death, which is one more reason not to leave the Surrogate’s Court appointment sitting. Missing the notice requirement can end an otherwise strong claim before it is heard, so if a public entity may be involved, get advice within weeks rather than months.

Shared Fault

Defendants regularly argue that the person who died was partly to blame. New York applies pure comparative fault under CPLR 1411, which reduces a recovery in proportion to the deceased person’s share of responsibility rather than eliminating it. New York narrowed this rule for motor vehicle cases in 2026, but the change does not reach claims arising from a death, so the proportional rule continues to govern here. A family is not shut out because a loved one was speeding, was not wearing a seat belt, or made a mistake of their own. Our overview of New York’s comparative negligence law explains how this works in practice.

What to Do After a Preventable Death in New York

The weeks after a death are not a time anyone should have to spend on legal strategy. These few steps protect your family’s position without demanding much of you.

Begin the Estate Appointment

Nothing can be filed until the Surrogate’s Court appoints a representative, and the process takes longer than families expect. It requires a death certificate, information about surviving relatives, and in some cases a search for a will. An attorney can carry most of this. Beginning it early costs nothing and removes the most common source of delay in these cases.

Preserve Evidence and Sign Nothing

Keep the vehicle, the equipment, the product, the clothing, and anything else connected to what happened, and do not allow it to be repaired, returned, scrapped, or sold. Save every document and message that arrives. Photograph the scene, or ask someone to do it for you, because roadways get repaved, worksites change, and video is often overwritten within weeks.

Do not give a recorded statement to any insurance company, and do not sign a release, a settlement, or a document described as routine paperwork before an attorney has read it. A release closes the claim permanently, including for losses your family has not yet discovered. If an adjuster is pressing for a decision, that pressure is itself a reason to slow down.

It is also worth avoiding public posts about the death or the case, since defense counsel review social media routinely.

Keep Records of What the Loss Costs

Because New York measures this claim financially, records are what the case is built from. Keep funeral and burial receipts, final medical bills, and documentation of your loved one’s income, benefits, and retirement contributions. Note what they did around the house and for the family, including childcare, transportation, repairs, and care for a relative, since replacing that work has a real cost that belongs in the claim.

Evidence That Supports a Wrongful Death Claim

Bring whatever you have to a consultation, even if it is incomplete or disorganized. Nothing on this list is a requirement for talking with us.

Records about the death itself

• Police, fire, or agency incident reports, and any workplace or facility incident report.
• The death certificate, and the autopsy or medical examiner report when one exists.
• Emergency response records, hospital and treatment records covering the period between injury and death, and any imaging. See our guide on obtaining medical records in New York.
• Photographs and video of the scene, the vehicles, the equipment, or the property involved.

Records about the financial loss

• Tax returns, pay stubs, W-2 or 1099 forms, and employment or union records.
• Benefit statements, pension and retirement account information, and evidence of health or life insurance provided through work.
• Funeral and burial invoices, final medical bills, and any expenses the family took on because of the death.
• Evidence of the direction their working life was heading, such as training completed, licenses earned, a promotion in progress, or a business being built.

Records about the family and the household

• Names, ages, and relationships of everyone who depended on your loved one financially or practically.
• A description of what they did for the household on an ordinary week, which is often the only source for this information.
• Any will, along with information about surviving relatives, which the Surrogate’s Court will need.
• Contact details for witnesses, coworkers, and anyone who spoke with your loved one after the injury.

How a Wrongful Death Case Interacts With a Criminal Prosecution

When a death involves a drunk driver, a violent act, or a serious safety violation, there may be a criminal case running alongside your family’s civil claim. Families are often told, sometimes by well meaning people, to wait for the criminal case to finish. That advice is usually wrong, and acting on it can cost a family its claim.

The two proceedings are separate in nearly every respect. A criminal prosecution is brought by the government to punish an offense, your family is a witness rather than a party, and it is decided under the demanding beyond a reasonable doubt standard. The civil claim is brought by the estate to compensate the family, your family controls it, and it is decided on a preponderance of the evidence, meaning more likely than not. Because the standards differ, an acquittal or a decision not to prosecute does not bar a civil claim.

A conviction or a guilty plea, on the other hand, is generally useful in the civil case, and material developed in a criminal investigation can often be obtained afterward. Restitution ordered in a criminal case is real but is typically limited to narrow categories of loss and is not a substitute for the civil claim.

New York does provide a safeguard here. Under 5-4.1, where a criminal action has been commenced against the same defendant over the same event, the personal representative has at least one year from the termination of that criminal action to bring the wrongful death claim, even if the ordinary period has run. This is a protection worth knowing about, but it is not a reason to wait, because it depends on a criminal case actually having been commenced, and it does nothing for evidence that goes stale in the meantime.

How Long You Have to File in New York

Under 5-4.1, a wrongful death action in New York must generally be commenced within two years after the date of death. That is a year shorter than the three year period New York allows for most personal injury cases under CPLR 214, and families who assume they have three years are the ones who call too late. Courts enforce this deadline strictly. Our complete guide to New York’s wrongful death statute of limitations works through the details.

Several qualifications change the arithmetic, and most of them shorten the practical window rather than lengthen it:

• The estate appointment comes first. The two years runs from the death, not from the appointment, so every week spent before the Surrogate’s Court process begins is a week subtracted from the time available to investigate and file.
• Claims involving a public entity. A notice of claim generally has to be served long before the lawsuit deadline, within a window measured in a small number of months, and in a wrongful death case that period ordinarily begins when the representative is appointed. This is the deadline families miss most often.
• The survival claim can run on a different clock. Because it is your loved one’s own injury claim continuing after death, it follows the deadline that applied to that claim, with a rule that gives the estate additional time when the original period would otherwise have expired around the time of death. The two claims should be calendared separately.
• A related criminal case. Where a criminal action has been commenced against the same defendant, 5-4.1 gives the representative at least one year from the end of that action.
• Practical deadlines arrive first. Vehicles are scrapped, worksites are altered, surveillance footage is overwritten, and memories fade. The legal deadline is rarely the one that decides a case.

If time has already passed, call anyway rather than assuming you are out of options. Which deadline applies depends on who the defendant is, what kind of claim it is, and when the representative was appointed, and that is not something to work out on your own.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does a New York wrongful death lawyer cost?

Porter Law Group handles wrongful death cases on a contingency fee basis. You pay nothing upfront and nothing unless we win, and the initial consultation is always free. Having a lawyer review what happened before your family decides anything costs you nothing.

Who can file a wrongful death claim in New York?

Only the personal representative of the deceased person’s estate, meaning the executor named in a will or an administrator appointed by the Surrogate’s Court. Family members cannot file directly in their own names, though a spouse, child, or parent is very often the person appointed to serve in that role. Under Estates, Powers and Trusts Law 5-4.4, whatever is recovered is held for the decedent’s distributees and divided among them according to the financial loss each one suffered.

No estate has been opened. Can we still bring a claim?

Yes. Most families we meet have not opened an estate, and that is normal rather than a problem. It simply has to happen before the lawsuit can be filed, and an attorney can guide your family through the Surrogate’s Court appointment as part of handling the case. The reason to start soon is timing. The two year deadline runs from the date of death regardless of when the appointment happens, and where a public entity is involved the notice of claim period generally begins at appointment.

Can our family recover for our grief and the loss of companionship?

Not under New York’s wrongful death statute, and we would rather tell you that now than later. Estates, Powers and Trusts Law 5-4.3 limits the award to pecuniary, meaning financial, injuries. Grief, emotional suffering, and the loss of a loved one’s companionship are not compensated. What is recoverable includes lost financial support, the value of household services and, for children, a parent’s nurture and guidance, along with medical and funeral expenses. The separate survival claim can compensate the conscious pain and suffering your loved one experienced before death.

What if my loved one suffered before they died?

Then the estate likely has a second claim. Under Estates, Powers and Trusts Law 11-3.2, an injury claim is not lost because the injured person died, and the personal representative may bring it. That survival claim compensates the physical pain, and where the evidence supports it the fear and awareness, that your loved one experienced between the injury and death, along with medical bills and lost earnings during that period. Where death was not immediate, this is often a substantial part of what a family recovers. It is proven with emergency response records, hospital notes, witness accounts, and medical opinion, so it matters that someone gathers that material early.

Can we file if the person responsible is being prosecuted criminally?

Yes, and you generally should not wait for the criminal case to end. The two proceedings are separate. A criminal case punishes an offense and is decided beyond a reasonable doubt, while your family’s civil claim seeks compensation and is decided on a preponderance of the evidence, meaning more likely than not. An acquittal or a decision not to charge anyone does not bar the civil claim. Estates, Powers and Trusts Law 5-4.1 does give the personal representative at least one year from the termination of a criminal action against the same defendant, but that safeguard is no reason to let evidence go stale.

What if my loved one was partly at fault?

Your family can still bring a claim. New York applies pure comparative fault under CPLR 1411, which reduces a recovery in proportion to the deceased person’s share of responsibility rather than barring it. A 2026 change narrowed this rule for motor vehicle cases, but it does not apply to claims arising from a death, so the proportional rule still governs a wrongful death claim. Insurers often overstate that share early on, and the investigation frequently shows the picture was different from what the first report suggested.

How long does a wrongful death case take?

Longer than most families hope. The estate has to be opened before anything is filed, the investigation and records gathering follow, and only then can a demand be made to the insurer. Cases that resolve in negotiation or mediation conclude sooner than cases litigated through discovery, and a case that goes to trial takes longer still. What we can promise is that you will know where things stand, because we would rather explain a delay than let a family wonder.

Where We Serve Wrongful Death Clients in New York

Porter Law Group is based in Syracuse and represents families throughout Onondaga County, including Liverpool, Cicero, DeWitt, Camillus, Manlius, North Syracuse, Baldwinsville, Fayetteville, Skaneateles, Solvay, East Syracuse, Salina, and Clay, along with the city neighborhoods of Eastwood, Westvale, Strathmore, Tipperary Hill, and University Hill. We also work with families across Central New York in Auburn, Cortland, Oswego, Ithaca, Utica, and Rome.

We maintain offices across New York State and take wrongful death cases statewide, including Buffalo and Western New York, Rochester and the Finger Lakes, Albany, Saratoga Springs, and the Capital Region, and New York City and the surrounding counties. Visit our Syracuse, Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, and New York City pages, browse all of our New York offices, or read the latest updates on the Porter Law Group blog.

Contact a New York Wrongful Death Lawyer

If your family has lost someone because of another person’s or company’s negligence anywhere in New York, the most useful thing that can happen right now is a conversation. There is no obligation attached to it and no cost. We will tell you honestly whether we think there is a claim, what New York law would and would not compensate, and what deadlines are running. If a claim does not make sense for your family, we will say so.

Our Syracuse office is at 100 Madison Street, Suite 1500, Syracuse, NY 13202. If travel is difficult, and after a death it usually is, we will come to you at your home instead. We also meet families at our Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, Saratoga Springs, and New York City offices.

Call 833-PORTER9 or email info@porterlawteam.com for a free, no-obligation consultation. We handle wrongful death cases on a contingency fee basis, so your family pays nothing unless we win.

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