Fatal Accident claims are usually highly complex, involving as they do serious, emotional and financial problems for the next of kin and families involved.
Dependants, including husbands or wives and children (adult or minor), if the deceased are fully entitled to claim. There is a fixed statutory sum called bereavement damages that can be claimed, currently £11,800, but of course compensation for dependants will not stop here.
Any person who was and can prove they were financially dependent upon the deceased (or the deceased's services) can claim for the finanical loss incurred as a result of the loss of dependency.
It is necessary in all fatal accident claims to prove there was reasonable expectation of financial benefit from the deceased. In most cases, this is not difficult to prove.
Who qualifies as a dependant?
- A wife or husband or former wife or husband
- A civil partner or former civil partner of the deceased
- A person who has been living with the deceased as a wife or husband for at least two years prior to the death of the deceased
- A child of the deceased
- A parent or someone else who was financially dependant on the deceased
- Someone who was treated by the deceased as his or her parent
- A brother, sister, uncle, aunt, niece or cousin by the deceased
- A step child who was treated as the deceased's child by the deceased
If you feel you may have a claim, or simply require further information, please contact us at enquiries@gordons-law.co.uk or call us on 01628 487 487
