The Florida Supreme Court has opened the door a little wider to wrongful death claims from people who weren’t married to victims at the time of injury, upsetting what defense lawyers said was a decades-old common-law practice.
In Ripple vs. CBS Corp. the court on Thursday overturned part of a state appeal court’s decision and found that a surviving spouse can recover damages, even if she had married the sickened worker after he was diagnosed and just before he died.
Florida’s 4th District Court of Appeals’ ru