{"id":3032,"date":"2015-03-01T17:05:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T22:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=3032"},"modified":"2016-01-29T09:33:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T14:33:51","slug":"dpw-claim-against-estate-instead-of-wrongful-death-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=3032","title":{"rendered":"DPW Claim Against Estate Instead of Wrongful Death Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The court erred in division of wrongful death action damages and survival action damages, because Department of Public Welfare&#8217;s (DPW) medicare claim was against the estate instead of a personal injury lien (which would be against the wrongful death action). \u00a0The Orphans&#8217; Court corrected the error, denied additional legal fees for the estate&#8217;s representative contesting DPW&#8217;s objections and ordered the remaining balance of the estate distributed to DPW (which is now the Department of Human Services). \u00a0<em>Harrington Estate<\/em>, 5 Fid.Rep.3d 65 (O.C. Mont.) (opinion by Ott, J.), <em>app. dismissed,<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A03010-16jo%20-%201025234526047793.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">No. 1319 EDA 2015<\/a> (1\/28\/2016) (non-precedential).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The court erred in division of wrongful death action damages and survival action damages, because Department of Public Welfare&#8217;s (DPW) medicare claim was against the estate instead of a personal injury lien (which would be against the wrongful death action). &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=3032\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[420,421,419,418,417,416],"class_list":["post-3032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-class-3-claim","tag-class-5-1-claim","tag-dhs","tag-dpw","tag-survival-action","tag-wrongful-death","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3032"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3733,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions\/3733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}