Horwell v. Oregon Episcopal School

How courts have described this case

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• “[W]rongful death actions may only be brought by the decedent’s personal representative for the benefit of the designated beneficiaries[.]”
• emotional distress damages for parent’s death were not recoverable in a wrongful death action and, by extension, could not be recoverable through a claim for negligent infliction of emotional distress arising from the parent’s death
• “Under Oregon’s wrongful death statute [ORS 30.020], when an unlawful act leads to the death of a person, only the personal representative of the estate can bring an action for wrongful death.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).