Wrongful Death
Maximize compensation for your clients
A wrongful death claim could result from a vehicle accident, medical negligence, an accidental overdose or a workplace accident, among other incidents. Regardless of the circumstances, when representing the deceased’s survivors, you want to ensure they receive maximum monetary compensation not only for lost income and funeral expenses but also for sorrow and mental anguish.
Statutes of limitations require that attorneys be efficient when researching and obtaining documentation for their litigation. An intuitive, HIPAA-compliant practice management system that simplifies law firm document management, calendaring and communications is key to serving clients effectively and efficiently.
Managing documents is the key to winning wrongful death claims
Effectively manage wrongful death cases with CloudLex’s legal document management software. Organize evidence, receipts, invoices, estimates and opposition documents. Save time, money and effort while efficiently tracking the case from start to finish. Build a strong lawsuit with streamlined document management.
Store unlimited case files securely in the cloud with CloudLex’s legal document management software. Easily name, categorize, tag and label case files for quick retrieval on any device, anytime.
Create DIY templates and download pre-designed templates, edit and customize them with ease, upload existing documents in bulk, collaborate with team members and archive and retrieve cases effortlessly.
Securely send documents for electronic signatures with Adobe Sign or DocuSign for law firm and seamlessly integrate with popular document management tools like OneDrive, Dropbox and Google Drive.
Manage tasks, communication, expenses and settlements
Legal task management for wrongful death negligence
The plaintiff’s personal injury lawyers must build a strong case in cases associated with a wrongful death claim. All this is time bound due to the statute of limitations. You can do all this and much more with the help of robust law firm task management software for cases related to wrongful death claims.
CloudLex’s software automatically schedules limitation dates and important events, providing fee earners with a countdown and ensuring timely proceedings.
Assign various tasks to your team during the discovery process, such as creating case files, opening packages and requesting medical records, streamlining workflow and ensuring efficiency.
Create legal workflow automation to handle tasks and events at every stage of your case, reducing errors, saving time and allowing for focus on critical issues. The managing partner gains visibility into tasks across the firm, tracking assignees, priorities, progress and obstacles.
Manage communication and keep everyone up to date
An important aspect of any wrongful death case for a plaintiffs’ lawyer is effective and efficient communication with all the parties, and the only thing that can resolve this efficiently is a fully integrated communication method.
Send emails and texts to clients directly from CloudLex, saving all communication in the case folder for easy access and collaboration within the team.
Use text messaging to request vital documents or images from clients, automatically organized in a matter-specific manner by CloudLex.
Have internal and matter-related conversations, tag chats to specific matter or client intake and seamlessly sync Outlook emails, events and contacts with CloudLex through Microsoft 365 integration.
Expenses and settlements are managed like never before
There are many time-consuming stages in wrongful death litigation, and making a claim for damages and demanding a monetary settlement is one of them. CloudLex can help you manage the case from intake to settlement and beyond. It has a robust legal expense management system supported by an injury settlement calculator.
CloudLex allows team members to record various expenses for wrongful death claims, including hospital bills, funeral expenses, income loss, future income loss, victims’ suffering and loss of companionship.
The Expense Manager feature enables the finance team to track expenditures by matter conveniently, view newly added expenses and handle payment requests, providing a centralized solution for managing expenses related to personal injury cases.
Personal injury law firms can easily sync their financial data between CloudLex and QuickBooks, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in managing expenses.
Settlement Calculator
Simplifying the management of demands and offers for single or multiple plaintiffs in a personal injury case, personal injury settlement calculator allows the logging of offers from adjusters, tracks payment requests and expenses and provides comprehensive management for different types of injuries.
Track your demands and offer calculations for your attorneys’ fee recovery, client recovery and even attorney referral fees for each offer or counteroffer received and/or accepted.
Automatically fetch expenses, medical bills and lien amount for a matter while adding negotiations for each plaintiff.
Quickly get a high-level view of the total settlement amount, paid amount, outstanding amount, settlement breakdown, plaintiff recovery, attorney recovery, etc.
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