Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. This Court will analyze Defendants’ argument under the two-step approach laid out in Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. Meade, 186 F.3d 435, 440 (4th Cir.1999). First, this court must determine whether a party who has not been joined is necessary to the action. Id. In a nearly identical situation in Johnson v. Price, 191 F.Supp.2d 626, 630 (D.Md.2001), this Court held that a daughter who was not named in her father’s wrongful death action was a necessary party under Rule 19(a). Since Maryland law restricts plaintiffs to a single wrongful death action, this Court reasoned that the decedent’s daughter was a real party in interest and her rights needed to be adjudicated. Id. at 629; see also Williams v. Work, 192 Md.App. 438, 995 A.2d 744, 755 (Md.Ct.Spec.App.2010) (<HOLDING>). Consequently, this Court found that in the
recognizing cause of action for wrongful death holding a wrongful death action may not be maintained for the death of an unborn child holding that a failure to include a beneficiary in a wrongful death action is a defect because the wrongful death act restricts plaintiffs to a single action holding the plaintiffs action was one for wrongful death and not survival where damages listed in complaint were identical to damages listed in the wrongful death act holding that plaintiffs failure to prove decedents death was caused by the wrongful acts of the defendant precludes any recovery of wrongful death damages under mississippis wrongful death statute