Rosander v. Copco Steel & Engineering Co.

How courts have described this case

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• adopting the joinder rule set forth in section 693 cmt. g
• injured spouse’s settlement and release of workers’ compensation claim did not bar plaintiffs loss of consortium claim
• “a wife has a cause of action for loss of consortium resulting from injury sustained by her husband”
• husband's contractual release of liability did not bar wife's loss of consortium claim
• to promote judicial economy while protecting party's right to maintain valid cause of action for loss of consortium, \best rule to follow . . . is to require joinder [of loss of consortium claim with underlying action] unless it is not possible to join the actions\

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