Preserve liability evidence
Keep reports, photographs, video, devices, vehicles, products, clothing, physical evidence, and witness information. Avoid repair, disposal, or destructive testing before review.
Los Angeles Wrongful Death Lawyer
A wrongful-death case asks who may bring the claim, what caused the death, which losses belong to eligible family members, and whether a related survival claim exists. Mayberry Law develops the evidence with care while protecting deadlines and family decision-making.
The Legal Claim Must Respect Both the Evidence and the Family
These matters can combine accident or misconduct evidence, medical and financial records, family relationships, probate authority, insurance coverage, and separate categories of loss. We help families organize those issues with strength, respect, and clarity.
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Protecting a Potential Wrongful Death Claim
Families should have space to grieve. At the same time, reports, video, vehicles, products, devices, witness memories, and public-entity deadlines may require prompt preservation by someone acting on the family's behalf.
Read California's wrongful-death statuteCollect medical and final-expense records
Preserve medical bills, treatment records, funeral and burial expenses, insurance communications, and related receipts.
Document financial and household contributions
Keep income, benefits, tax, employment, household-service, caregiving, and support records that may help explain the family's economic loss.
Identify public entities or employers
Special claim procedures, workers' compensation, third-party claims, and insurance issues can change deadlines and the parties involved.
Coordinate family and estate authority
Avoid signing releases before understanding who may bring the wrongful-death claim, whether a survival claim belongs to the estate, and how all eligible claimants will be addressed.
Wrongful Death and Survival Claims Are Related but Distinct
A wrongful-death claim generally addresses eligible family members' losses. A survival claim belongs to the estate and continues claims the decedent held. The evidence, authority, and damages must be coordinated carefully.
All eligible claimants must be identified
California law specifies categories of people who may assert the wrongful-death claim. Family relationships and dependency can require careful factual and probate review.
One release may affect multiple rights
Insurance discussions should not move ahead until the claimants, estate authority, defendants, coverages, liens, and separate claims are understood.
Liability evidence can disappear during immediate arrangements
While a family focuses on funeral, medical, and personal matters, video, physical evidence, company records, and witness memory may be changing.
Public-entity and workplace issues can alter the path
Government claims, workers' compensation death benefits, employer rights, and third-party claims can introduce different procedures and deadlines.
Documenting Family and Estate Losses
There is no fixed calculator. Available damages depend on the eligible claimants, estate issues, evidence, financial history, relationship evidence, and the circumstances of the death.
Financial support
Income, benefits, expected support, and the decedent's work history may help establish the financial contribution that eligible family members lost.
Household services
Caregiving, transportation, maintenance, guidance, and other services the decedent regularly provided can be important evidence.
Companionship and guidance
Wrongful-death evidence may address the loss of love, companionship, comfort, care, assistance, protection, affection, society, and moral support.
Estate and final expenses
Funeral and burial expenses and damages belonging to a separate survival claim require classification and supporting records.
Wrongful Death Matters We Handle
We represent families in fatal incidents throughout Los Angeles and Southern California.
- Vehicle and pedestrian incidents
- Workplace and construction deaths
- Dangerous-property claims
- Defective-product matters
- Negligent-security claims
- Other deaths caused by wrongful acts or neglect
How Mayberry Law Supports a Wrongful Death Case
We combine careful legal development with direct attorney communication and respect for the family's pace and priorities.
Identify legal authority
We review eligible claimants, the personal representative, estate issues, related claims, and the roles each person may hold.
Preserve responsibility evidence
We secure available physical, digital, reporting, company, vehicle, product, and witness evidence.
Document the family's loss
We organize financial, service, relationship, medical, and final-expense evidence without reducing the person to a formula.
Prepare with sensitivity
We coordinate insurance, liens, settlement authority, and litigation while keeping the attorneys responsible for the strategy directly involved.
A Smaller Firm Built for Serious Cases
You work directly with Quinn or Brent Mayberry—not a rotating case manager—while your claim is prepared with the discipline insurers expect from a trial-ready firm.
Results That Matter
We’ve secured millions for clients across California in personal injury and disability cases—holding insurers and corporations fully accountable.
Harvard-Trained, Trial-Ready
Our legal team brings Ivy League strategy to every case—and we prepare each one as if it’s going to trial. No shortcuts. No pressure to settle early.
Hands-On, Personalized Support
At Mayberry Law, you're not passed off to a junior associate. Every client works directly with Quinn or Brent Mayberry—experienced, accessible, and fully committed.
A Family-Run Firm You Can Trust
Combining elite legal expertise with the care of a family-owned California firm, we provide personal attention and fierce advocacy—every step of the way.
What Clients Say About Working With Us
“Brent and Quinn at Mayberry Law are really the best attorneys to have on your side. They’re very effective and professional and truly care about their clients. They know their stuff and are 100% the go to guys when you need a lawyer.”
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“Brent and Quinn are top notch attorneys with the experience, skill, and tenacity to obtain great results for their clients. I’ve known Quinn for 10+ years, and I can guarantee you won’t find an attorney with greater character and drive in the LA area.”
“I felt like the attorneys at Mayberry Law actually cared about me and had my best interests at heart. They are disciplined and dedicated and worked tirelessly to make sure they represented me with excellence.”
Frequently Asked Questions
Who can bring a wrongful death claim in California?+
Code of Civil Procedure §377.60 identifies categories including a surviving spouse or domestic partner, children, certain heirs, and specified dependents. Eligibility is fact-specific. See CCP §§377.60–377.62.
What is the difference between wrongful death and a survival claim?+
A wrongful-death claim generally addresses eligible family members' losses resulting from the death. A survival claim belongs to the estate and continues claims the decedent held. The two may be joined or coordinated but are not interchangeable.
How long do families have to act?+
California's ordinary wrongful-death deadline is commonly two years, but public entities and other facts can require much earlier action. See the California Courts deadline guide and Government Code §911.2.
How are wrongful death damages calculated?+
There is no fixed calculator. The analysis depends on eligible claimants, the decedent's financial and household contributions, relationship evidence, final expenses, liability, coverage, and the circumstances of the case.