214 So. 2d 787 - Dixon v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

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1. “We do not propose that this rule is necessarily the best rule. It has been eloquently argued by the New Jersey Supreme Court in Patusco v. Prince Macaroni, Inc., 1967, 50 N.J. 365 , 235 A.2d 465 , that the injured wife should recover for her medical expenses regardless of whether she or her husband actually made the payments. If the wife were permitted to sue for her medical expenses, her husband's contributory negligence would not bar her claim. Reasonably, it should not matter to the tort feasor whether the wife or some third person made the expenditures his negligence made necessary. And, from the wife's point of view, her financial resources are depleted whether she or her husband pays her medical bills. But the Patusco case presents only a solitary view of the prevailing law. Attractive as it may appear, we are not in a position to overrule the great body of precedent which holds that a husband may not recover on his claims based upon his wife's medical expenses to which his own negligence has contributed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 466 So. 2d 259 - Caranna v. Eades

2. “In this case, the only claim for recovery of medical expenses attributable to [the wife’s] injuries was in [the husband’s] complaint. This was properly so since the only circumstances under which [the wife] might have recovered her medical expenses in her own right would be if she had in fact paid those expenses, or had obligated her separate estate to pay them. In the absence of such special circumstances, a husband is legally responsible for his wife’s medical expenses and it is he and not his wife who is entitled to be compensated for them.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Grace v. Sondheimer