Can I Still Benefit From My Mom’s Lawsuit?

My mom had hired a New York lawyer to help her with her Vioxx litigation case. My sister and I never paid much attention to what she was doing because to be honest, mom is something of a conspiracy theory type, and we figured this was just her latest delusion.

Then two years ago, she got really sick, and no one could tell us why. She kept saying it was because of all the drugs the hospital had given her during her hip replacement surgery 6 months earlier. At first we just kind of ignored it because she is 76 and well, as people get old they get sick right? But as we became more involved with her care, we both came to the conclusion that there might be some validity to her claims. I don’t know if it was Vioxx she was given or something else; seems like every new wonder drug eventually ends up in a lawsuit (fairly or not).

She passed away two weeks ago, and now my sister and I are ready to pick up the fight where she left off, but can we benefit from the lawsuit she started? Or are we acting like modern day ambulance chasers? My husband says I’m reacting out of grief, but am I? I really don’t know.

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