Solatium is a type of damage that may be recovered in a wrongful death case in Colorado when the plaintiff cannot prove economic loss or when a plaintiff was estranged from the decedent at the time of death.
This is an alternative to putting proof of various categories of non-economic loss, and a plaintiff may elect in writing to sue for “solatium” in the amount of $50,000[16] to be awarded in addition to economic damages and reasonable funeral and burial expenses.[17]