awarded in proportion to the injuries they suffered as a result of the decedent’s death. Maryland law thus makes clear that all beneficiaries in wrongful death lawsuits are the real parties in interest in these suits. Indeed, if one of a decedent’s beneficiaries is absent from a wrongful death lawsuit, Maryland law requires that a judgment rendered in favor of the beneficiary or beneficiaries who did prosecute the suit be vacated. Johnson v. Price, 191 F.Supp.2d 626, 629 (D.Md.2001) (citations omitted). Because the judgment may be vacated if a wrongful death beneficiary is not included in the action, “the court cannot accord complete relief among existing parties” when a beneficiary is excluded. Fed.R.Civ.P. 19(a)(1)(A); see also Ward v. Walker, 725 F.Supp.2d 506, 510-11 (D.Md.2010) (<HOLDING>); Johnson, 191 F.Supp.2d at 630 (same). That
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 holding that decedents daughter was necessary party to maryland wrongful death action holding that action for wrongful death may generally not be maintained where death was selfinflicted 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 recognizing cause of action for wrongful death