Damages for loss of consortium
Applied in 20 court decisions — leading case Ford v. General Motors Corp. (2002)
Most recently applied in 617 F. App'x 480 - Andrea Richardson v. Rose Transport, Inc. (July 2015)
History: Created 1970 Ky
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) As used in this section "consortium" means the right to the services, assistance, aid, society, companionship and conjugal relationship between husband and wife, or wife and husband.
(2) Either a wife or husband may recover damages against a third person for loss of consortium, resulting from a negligent or wrongful act of such third person.
Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.