Justice and Compensation For You and Your Family
When a loved one dies due to the negligence of another, survivors must deal with the emotional and financial consequences. Our wrongful death lawyers may help you recover compensation from the responsible party.
Stephen Rue & Associates Law Firm in New Orleans, Gretna and Kenner, Louisiana, is dedicated to helping family members of fatally injured accident victims to achieve justice and compensation in tragic circumstances. For more than 26 years, Stephen Rue has represented the family members of fatally injured people in wrongful death lawsuits, helping them recover money to cover their deceased loved ones’ medical bills, funeral expenses and lost income, as well as compensate for non-monetary losses like pain and suffering and loss of companionship.
If your family depended on an income that will no longer be there, our wrongful death lawyers can estimate and work to recover income your loved one would have earned in the future.
Metairie Wrongful Death Lawyers
Our New Orleans wrongful death lawyers cannot end your grief or bring back your loved one. However, we can help you to recover money and re-establish a sense of justice, if your loved one died as a result of any of the following:
- Car Accident
- Motorcycle Accident
- Commercial Truck Accident
- Workplace Accident Workers Compensation
- Medical Malpractice at hospitals, clinics and care facilities
- Nursing Home Abuse/Nursing Home Neglect
We utilize accident reconstructionists, medical experts, earnings consultants and other professionals in their investigations. They do this to determine the factors that caused your loved one’s death, to identify each of the parties responsible for any negligence, and to determine a financial basis for compensating you.
Our Wrongful Death Lawyers Fight For You
Insurance companies are often unwilling to pay the full amount of death benefits to survivors of accident victims. Our law firm has spent many years holding insurance companies accountable for what they owe our clients through bad faith insurance claim handling lawsuits. Often, just the threat of a lawsuit will bring insurers to the negotiating table to discuss a reasonable settlement.