Wrongful death is a claim in common law jurisdictions against a
person who can be held liable for a death. The claim is brought in
a civil actions, usually by close relatives, as enumerated by
statute. Under common law, a dead person cannot bring a suit, and
this created a legal hole in which activities that resulted in a
person's injury would result in civil sanction but activities that
resulted in a person's death would not.
A wrongful death action would be someone putting forward the
claim of wrongful death, this being the action.
If it was floated it means the court generally did not accept
the action, did not accept the suit, and the person held liable
would not be charged for wrongful death