County of Los Angeles v. the Superior Court

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that § 377.34 7 allows the estate of the decedent to recover for pecuniary losses such as lost or reduced wages or 8 medical care expenses, but not for emotional distress because “when the plaintiff experiences 9 emotional distress, the loss is nonpecuniary”
• a decedent’s estate can’t recover damages for a decedent’s pain, suffering, or disfigurement because those “injuries [are] strictly personal to the decedent and therefore not transmissible to the estate”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).