Who is Entitled to Receive Benefits In A Wrongful Death Case?
- A wrongful death claim must be brought by a personal representative of the estate of the decedent.
- That is one of either two parties; an executor under a will or, where there is no will, an administrator who is appointed by the probate court in New York to represent the estate.
- In terms of who can benefit and who’s entitled to receive benefits, those would be the heirs or, as New York calls it, the beneficiaries of a decedent.
