This form is a sample personal injury complaint filed by guests at motel which failed to provide adequate security, thereby permitting unauthorized persons access premises, resulting in the death of one of the plaintiffs and injury to others.
Alabama Amended Complaint for Personal Injury and Wrongful Death
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You do not have to prove wrongful death beyond a reasonable doubt. Instead, you must prove it is at least 51 percent likely the death was wrongful; this burden of proof is called the ?preponderance of the evidence.?
Alabama does not award compensatory damages in wrongful death cases. Instead, it allows for the award of punitive damages. Punitive damages are designed to punish individuals or companies who engaged in wrongdoing, causing the needless death of someone.
Amended and supplemental pleadings. A party shall plead in response to an amended pleading within the time remaining for a response to the original pleading or within ten (10) days after service of the amended pleading, whichever period may be longer, unless the court orders otherwise.
Under the Alabama wrongful death law, Ala. Code § 6-5-410, you generally only have two years to begin a lawsuit based on your loved one's injury accident and subsequent death. Missing this deadline could mean being barred from taking any further legal action in the case.
Under the Alabama wrongful death law, Ala. Code § 6-5-410, you generally only have two years to begin a lawsuit based on your loved one's injury accident and subsequent death. Missing this deadline could mean being barred from taking any further legal action in the case.
The cap for punitive damages in personal injury lawsuits is three times the amount of compensatory damages or $1,500,000 ? whichever is greater. For most cases not involving physical injury, punitive damages cannot exceed three times the compensatory damages or $500,000 ? whichever is greater.
Some states cap the amount of damages that can be awarded to a plaintiff in a wrongful death suit, but Alabama has no such limit. Get more details on damages that might be available in a wrongful death case.
Though only personal representatives have legal authority to file wrongful death lawsuits in Alabama, any compensation recovered goes to the decedent's surviving loved ones. This may include their spouse, children, parents, and others who were dependent upon the deceased for support.
The highest wrongful death settlement was $160 million.
