Riggs v. Georgia-Pacific LLC

INTRODUCTION

Associate Chief Justice NEHRING,

opinion of the Court:

T1 In this case we are asked to determine whether a judgment rendered in favor of the plaintiff in a personal injury suit bars a subsequent wrongful death claim arising out of the same injury and against the same defendants. This question is a matter of first impression in Utah. Though in some of our prior cases we have hinted at Utah's stance on this question, we have never explicitly addressed it. 1 In this case we are asked to examine Utah's wrongful death cause of action, which is found both in the Utah Code, at section…