Wyness v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that a “survival action allows for recovery of damages for injury sustained by the deceased up to the time of death”
• observing that a “survival action allows for recovery of damages for injury sustained by the deceased up to the time of death”
• noting that the Act created a new cause of action
• “In addition to the actions which survive by the common law, the following also survive: actions of replevin, actions to recover damages for an injury to the person ***.”
• wrongful death action “addresses the injury suffered by the next of kin due to the loss of the deceased rather than the injuries personally suffered by the deceased prior to death” and, thus, “[t]he precipitating ‘injury’ for the plaintiffs in a wrongful death action *** is the death”
• wrongful death action \addresses the injury suffered by the next of kin due to the loss of the deceased rather than the injuries personally suffered by the deceased prior to death\ and, thus, \the precipitating 'injury' for the plaintiffs in a wrongful death action *** is the death\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).