Raptis-Smith v. St. Joseph's Medical Center

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• describing ‘‘the mental and emotional anguish caused by seeing a healthy, loving companion- able mate turned into a shell of a person’’
• dismissal of wife’s main action for medical malpractice required dismissal of husband’s derivative claim for loss of consortium
• which “eradicated the distinction between a husband and wife in their respective rights to recover for loss of consortium in a personal injury action”
• “concept of consortium includes not only loss of support or services, it also embraces such elements as love, companionship, affection, society, sexual relations, solace and more”
• “The concept of consortium includes not only loss of support or services, it also embraces such elements as love, companionship, affection, society, sexual relations, solace and more.”
• “Where, however, the husband’s cause of action has been terminated either by judgment, settlement or otherwise, that should operate to bar the wife’s cause of action for consortium”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).