Santos v. Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• interpreting insurance policy language in same way as nearly identical statutory language
• parents of deceased adult unmarried child may recover damages under section 2 as “next of kin” for purposes of section 1
• beneficiaries receive award, but must operate through \conduit\ of executor or 14See also Beausoleil's Case, 321 Mass. 344, 347 (1947
• parents of deceased adult unmarried child may recover damages under section 2 as \next of kin\ for purposes of section 1
• “‘purposes underlying the allowance of punitive damages . . . are punishment of the defendant and deterrence of future wrongdoing’”
• enforcing subrogation provision in standard motor vehicle insurance policy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).