Stone Ex Rel. Stone v. CSX Transportation, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that wrongful death claims do not belong to the estate
• court approval of settlement necessary to bind non-consenting adult beneficiaries of wrongful death claim; public policy strongly favors protecting the interests of all beneficiaries
• “[A] wrongful death action exists for the benefit of a decedent’s beneficiaries. It is not a claim that belongs to the decedent’s estate.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).