Sullivan v. Carlisle

How courts have described this case

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• “[A] wrongful death claim ... is neither a transmitted right nor a survival right, but is created and vests in the survivors at the moment of death.”
• “The [amended] statute is primarily intended to compensate bereaved survivors for the loss of the decedent’s companionship and support.”
• this section of the probate code authorizes the personal representative to commence and prosecute those actions which may be maintained
• \The [amended] statute is primarily intended to compensate bereaved survivors for the loss of the decedent’s companionship and support.\
• “The persons entitled to share in the proceeds recovered by the plaintiff ad litem are determined by § 537.095.2.”
• describing section 587.808 as a combined \death and survival\ statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).