Wiggins v. Estate of Wright

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• noting that a single attorney may be able to represent the survivors when all of the survivors have a “commonality of interest” as to prosecuting a wrongful death claim and in distributing the recovery
• noting survivors may be represented by separate counsel where they lack commonality of interest
• “In no instance, however, should a survivor be penalized for hiring separate counsel by having to pay a fee for recovery of the same amount twice.”
• “[B]y statute, the personal representative is the only party with standing to bring a 9 wrongful death suit on behalf of the estate and the survivors.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).