Estate of Kuba Ex Rel. Kuba v. Ristow Trucking Co.

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• holding that given the language of the applicable provision of Indiana’s wrongful death statues, the definition of “person” did not include an estate and that the estate was precluded from bringing a claim
• construing \but not limited to\ language as limited to damages \evolv[ing] from a deprivation to a survivor as a result of the death\
• construing \but not limited to\ language as limited to damages \evolv[ing] from a deprivation to a survivor as a result of the death\
• declining to expand “but not limited to” to include statutory treble damages due to a tortfeasor’s driving while intoxicated, which treble damages are not “of the same genre” as the pecuniary losses permitted by the wrongful death statute
• declining to expand \but not limited to\ to include statutory treble damages due to a tortfeasor's driving while intoxicated, which treble damages are not \of the same genre\ as the pecuniary losses permitted by the wrongful death statute

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