Case type: Wrongful death — products liability, contaminated packaged meat
Production type: Life After Loss® Settlement Documentary
Jurisdiction: Federal court, Northwest
He was sixty-three years old. He had worked the same job for thirty years, raised three children, and was eighteen months from retirement. He bought packaged deli meat from a grocery store he had shopped at for decades. The meat was contaminated. He became ill. He was hospitalized. He did not recover. His death was one of several linked to the same contamination event, and his family’s attorney retained Colton Legal Media to ensure that when the case reached the defense and their insurers, this man was not reduced to a line item in a liability calculation.
Products liability wrongful death cases carry a particular challenge: the defendant is a corporation, the mechanism of injury is invisible, and the defense playbook often centers on minimizing the decedent’s life expectancy, pre-existing conditions, or economic contribution. Andrew Colton worked with the surviving spouse and adult children to document not the death — but the life. Who this man was at a family dinner. What Sundays looked like. What retirement was supposed to look like. The chair at the table that no one sits in now. His wife of thirty-eight years, describing the phone call she still reaches for when something happens and she wants to tell him about it.
The Life After Loss® documentary was submitted to defense counsel six weeks before the scheduled mediation date. The defense requested an early settlement conference before mediation was reached. The case resolved.
What this production type is designed to do: Force a corporation to reckon with what its negligence actually cost. A demand package tells defense counsel what happened. A Life After Loss® documentary shows them who it happened to — and makes the human cost of a contaminated product impossible to negotiate away with actuarial tables.
To discuss a case confidentially, call 877-484-4611 or contact Andrew Colton here. Sample productions are available upon request to retained counsel.