{"id":33845,"date":"2021-05-13T05:30:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T09:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/?p=33845"},"modified":"2022-09-14T15:43:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T19:43:38","slug":"punitive-damages-in-atlanta-georgia-wrongful-death-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/punitive-damages-in-atlanta-georgia-wrongful-death-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Punitive Damages in Atlanta, Georgia Wrongful Death Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33893 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Punitive-Damages-2.jpg\" alt=\"Punitive Damages\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Punitive-Damages-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Punitive-Damages-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Punitive-Damages-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Punitive-Damages-2-180x120.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>As mentioned in Part I, punitive damages are not available as part of the wrongful death claim. They are, however, available in connection with the estate\u2019s claims for the decedent\u2019s predeath injuries and pain and suffering. <u>Donson Nursing Facilities v. Dixon<\/u>, 176 Ga. App. 700, 701 (1985).<\/p>\n<p>Like with the wrongful death claim itself, punitive damages were not allowed under common law.<\/p>\n<p>They are statutory in nature, and consequently, they are strictly construed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/punitive-damages-in-atlanta-georgia-wrongful-death-cases\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Punitive Damages in Atlanta, Georgia Wrongful Death Cases\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in Part I, punitive damages are not available as part of the wrongful death claim. They are, however, available in connection with the estate\u2019s claims for the decedent\u2019s predeath injuries and pain and suffering. Donson Nursing Facilities v. Dixon, 176 Ga. App. 700, 701 (1985). Like with the wrongful death claim itself, punitive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-injury-wrongful-death"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Punitive Damages in Atlanta, Georgia Wrongful Death Cases &#8212; Trial Attorney Blog &#8212; May 13, 2021<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As mentioned in Part I, punitive damages are not available as part of the wrongful death claim. They are, however, available in connection with the &#8212; May 13, 2021\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/punitive-damages-in-atlanta-georgia-wrongful-death-cases\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Punitive Damages in Atlanta, Georgia Wrongful Death Cases &#8212; Trial Attorney Blog &#8212; May 13, 2021\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"As mentioned in Part I, punitive damages are not available as part of the wrongful death claim. They are, however, available in connection with the &#8212; May 13, 2021\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Punitive-Damages-2.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Finch McCranie, LLP\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Punitive Damages in Atlanta, Georgia Wrongful Death Cases &#8212; Trial Attorney Blog &#8212; May 13, 2021","description":"As mentioned in Part I, punitive damages are not available as part of the wrongful death claim. They are, however, available in connection with the &#8212; May 13, 2021","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/punitive-damages-in-atlanta-georgia-wrongful-death-cases\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Punitive Damages in Atlanta, Georgia Wrongful Death Cases &#8212; Trial Attorney Blog &#8212; May 13, 2021","twitter_description":"As mentioned in Part I, punitive damages are not available as part of the wrongful death claim. They are, however, available in connection with the &#8212; May 13, 2021","twitter_image":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Punitive-Damages-2.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Finch McCranie, LLP","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/punitive-damages-in-atlanta-georgia-wrongful-death-cases\/","url":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/punitive-damages-in-atlanta-georgia-wrongful-death-cases\/","name":"Punitive Damages in Atlanta, Georgia Wrongful Death Cases &#8212; Trial Attorney Blog &#8212; May 13, 2021","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/punitive-damages-in-atlanta-georgia-wrongful-death-cases\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/punitive-damages-in-atlanta-georgia-wrongful-death-cases\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Punitive-Damages-2.jpg","datePublished":"2021-05-13T09:30:52+00:00","dateModified":"2022-09-14T19:43:38+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/4c607d19a3fdb947c462210c077ff4a4"},"description":"As mentioned in Part I, punitive damages are not available as part of the wrongful death claim. They are, however, available in connection with the &#8212; May 13, 2021","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/punitive-damages-in-atlanta-georgia-wrongful-death-cases\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/punitive-damages-in-atlanta-georgia-wrongful-death-cases\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/punitive-damages-in-atlanta-georgia-wrongful-death-cases\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Punitive-Damages-2.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Punitive-Damages-2.jpg","width":1000,"height":667,"caption":"Punitive Damages"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/punitive-damages-in-atlanta-georgia-wrongful-death-cases\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Punitive Damages in Atlanta, Georgia Wrongful Death Cases"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/","name":"Trial Attorney Blog","description":"Published by Georgia Trial Lawyers \u2014 Finch McCranie, LLP","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/4c607d19a3fdb947c462210c077ff4a4","name":"Finch McCranie, LLP","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0ac10eb5fe0f322f70ad7a84f6c73584e7381799013c841fb9f2ecf347e28d71?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0ac10eb5fe0f322f70ad7a84f6c73584e7381799013c841fb9f2ecf347e28d71?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Finch McCranie, LLP"}}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33845"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33906,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33845\/revisions\/33906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}