Survivors Claims for Compensation of Moral Damages Caused by Injuries

Sometimes before compensation for moral damages and before the final decision to be issued, the victim dies. In such a situation, the main question is that if the inheritors can claim compensation for them (survival damages). Survival damages are those damages incurred by the decedent in his/her living.
Survivors may claim a wrongful death action against the tortfeasor in addition to survival action for non-pecuniary losses which they suffered in the result of this event (wrongful death damages). Wrongful death damages are those damages that arise as a result of the injury or death of direct victim. In acceptance of this type of claims and who are entitled to it, there is no consensus. Since blood-money institution exists in our legal system in the case of physical injuries and death, the status of blood-money should be considered in the ssurvivors claims. Since today the events leading to injuries and death frequently happen and the importance of the moral damages caused, in this article, we discuss the claims for such damages from the survivors.