{"id":2639,"date":"2013-12-17T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2013-12-17T07:17:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T13:17:21","slug":"cook-county-circuit-court-judges-clarify-illinois-wrongful-death-act-illinois-survival-statute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/cook-county-circuit-court-judges-clarify-illinois-wrongful-death-act-illinois-survival-statute\/","title":{"rendered":"Cook County Circuit Court Judges Clarify the Illinois Wrongful Death Act and the Illinois Survival Statute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Recently two Cook County Circuit Court judges, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookcountycourt.org\/JudgesPages\/EganLynnM.aspx\">Judge Lynn M. Egan<\/a> (Law Division) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookcountycourt.org\/JudgesPages\/CoghlanMaryEllen.aspx\">Judge Mary Ellen Coghlan<\/a> (Probate Division), developed an instructive PowerPoint program for Illinois lawyers, in an effort to clearly define the differences between wrongful death actions and survival actions in Illinois.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In a wrongful death act claim, the recovery would be for the exclusive benefit of the decedent\u2019s surviving spouse and next-of-kin.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>If the wrongful death was immediate with no pain and suffering associated with it, a special administrator could be appointed as the case is being filed.<span>\u00a0<\/span>No probate estate would be necessary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">However, the confusion begins when a wrongful death act claim and a survival statute claim are both present.<span>\u00a0<\/span>When a survival action is available to a plaintiff, the judges concur that a probate estate must be set up for the benefit of the decedent\u2019s estate.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>A survival action is like many personal injury cases in which there may be pain and suffering element to the case associated with the injury that later resulted in death.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Where there is a portion of the recovery for damages related to pain and suffering by settlement or verdict, the sum associated with the survival action goes to the decedent\u2019s estate, not to the next-of-kin or surviving spouse as it would if for the wrongful death action.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/cook-county-circuit-court-judges-clarify-illinois-wrongful-death-act-illinois-survival-statute\/#more-2639\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently two Cook County Circuit Court judges, Judge Lynn M. 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