United Pacific Insurance v. Edgecomb

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• holding that father’s emotional distress from witnessing his son’s injury was “entirely dependent upon the injury to the child,” and thus subject to same per-person policy limits
• concluding that insurance policy “limit[s] the obligation to pay [emotional distress] damages that are derivative or consequential from the injuries to one person to the limits of the policy for injury to that person”
• damages for mental anguish are derivative from bodily injury to another and subject to single per person limit in policy
• father’s grief and mental anguish are consequential damages arising from injury to son, rather than direct damages
• father's grief and mental anguish are consequential damages arising from injury to son, rather than direct damages
• “the damage award for injuries to the child is combined with the damage award for the parent’s anguish and grief which are derivative of and entirely dependent upon the injury to the child.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).