Personal Injury Law

Michael Jackson?s Father Expected to File Personal Injury Lawsuit

By Michael

Michael Jackson?s father will likely file a wrongful death lawsuit against the man working as the singer?s personal doctor at the time of Jackson?s death.

Joe Jackson, Michael?s father, is expected to file the personal injury lawsuit within the next three months, according to NBC Los Angeles. One of Joe Jackson?s attorneys, Brian Oxnard, informed various media outlets on March 30 that he has sent a legal notice to Dr. Conrad Murray letting him know that Joe Jackson intends to file the wrongful death lawsuit.

One of the more controversial aspects of Michael Jackson?s death involves a powerful anesthetic called propofol the singer was using under the advice of Murray.

Oxnard told NBC the frequency and amount of the drug administered to Michael Jackson before his death ?was reckless and amounts to second-degree murder.?

?The continuous administration of drugs over six weeks — he (Murray) gave him propofol every night — that is Russian roulette, that is loading six bullets into a gun with only six chambers,? said.

Murray has also been heavily scrutinized for the alleged delay between finding Jackson unconcious and calling for help. Oxnard also accuses Murray of waiting too long, and that such an action also contributed to the singer?s death, according to NBC Los Angeles.

?The bottom line is, had paramedics gotten there earlier and had they been called right away, chances are he could have been revived,? Oxnard said to the Los Angeles Times previously.

Notices about the wrongful death lawsuit came after the Associated Press found out that one of Michael Jackson?s staff members went on record about Murray delaying in calling emergency personnel.

Michael Jackson?s logistics director Alberto Alvarez told investigators that Murray had stopped performing CPR on Jackson to hide vials of drugs, according to NBC Los Angeles.

Murray?s defense attorneys argued back that Alvarez had not made any mention about Murray delaying to call 911 or stopping CPR in previous testimony to investigators.

Murray?s lawyers said they had not received any notice from Oxnard about a wrongful death lawsuit, and would not comment on the notice until it was received.

The 90 day notice is legally required and a wrongful death lawsuit must be filed within a year of a person?s death, Oxnard said. He also said there was not sufficient evidence before to file a suit, but now there is.

?Having records, instead of just speculation, has been very important and hard to do, but we (now) finally have the records so we can tell what happened,? Oxman said.

Since his son’s death, Joe Jackson has been involved in other legal wranglings, most notably over the pop star’s will.

Full post as published by The Injury Blog on April 02, 2010 (boomark / email).