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the wrongful death
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uh cases are different than the personal
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injury
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at least in one major respect in the
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personal injury cases
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the focus is the injured person
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and that person is the plaintiff and we
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focus our time on
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their damages understanding their story
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because under the law it’s the injured
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person who gets to recover
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in contrast in the elder abuse wrongful
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death
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the person who’s entitled to receive
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damages are the eld that is now deceased
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elders heirs their relatives often
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they’re if they died with a spouse still
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surviving
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the spouse and their surviving children
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so there in the wrongful death our focus
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isn’t
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completely on how the elder died but
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it’s also
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how did that elder’s death affect
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his or her family we focus on the
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relationship
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that that elder had with his or her
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family
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and how that family has been harmed and
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damaged
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because now they no longer have that
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relationship
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with their mother or father who’s now
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deceased