Louisiana Wrongful Death Definition

This listing covers Shamieh Law’s wrongful death practice serving Lake Charles, Louisiana – a team with an unusually personal stake in the community. Founding partner Ramez Shamieh was born and raised in Lake Charles, and he leads the local office alongside Max Guthrie, a lifelong friend known for going the extra mile for clients, and Nicholas Anthony, who earned his law degree from Loyola University in New Orleans and thrives in high-pressure litigation. Firm-wide, the team has recovered more than $300 million for personal injury clients, including catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases.

The firm’s death-case results show it can handle claims most lawyers cannot. Recoveries include $9.5 million for the family of a worker who fell 30 feet to his death after being denied proper training and safety equipment; a $5 million arbitration award after an employee was murdered by a robber despite repeated warnings that the business needed more security; $1 million for the family of a charter bus driver killed in a head-on collision; and $1 million after a disgruntled patron returned to a business and killed an employee. Several of these are negligent-security and workplace-death cases – among the hardest categories in injury law to win.

Louisiana wrongful death law has traps that make experienced counsel essential: the state generally allows only one year from the date of death to file, and a strict family-priority hierarchy determines who may bring the claim at all. Shamieh Law’s approach is to take over the entire process – investigation, evidence, negotiation, and litigation – while keeping grieving families informed at every step, guided by its Winning With Awareness philosophy of pursuing aggressive results with compassion.

This team fits families in the Lake Charles area who lost a loved one in a car or truck crash, a workplace incident, a boating accident, or through unsafe premises or inadequate security. There are no upfront fees, consultations are free, and the firm is paid only if it wins.