scorpio516 wrote:
Fixed. They took the lost wages approach. He was a marine salvage captain (I didn't know you could get a captain's license at 18), 40 years of lost wages.
Lost wages that would never have gone to mom. Mom filed the complaint. Mom has to show harm. Mom has to show the loss of her son resulted in the loss of $4.2M in wages to her. Mom was not a dependent of son.
If he had a dependent, that evaluation would make sense. But mom is not a dependent. A working parent with a spouse/kid is worth the value of lost wages. Kids are not worth much at all b/c they have no dependents.
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