Opinion ID: 1058370
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 14

Heading: Constitutionality of Consortium Claims

Text: The defendants argue that allowing damages for the loss of consortium under the retrospective application of Jordan v. Baptist Three Rivers Hosp., 984 S.W.2d 593 (Tenn.1999), violated article I, section 20 of the Tennessee Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The plaintiff argues that the defendants failed to raise this issue prior to or during the trial and that, in any event, there was no constitutional error. This issue is resolved by our decision in Hill v. City of Germantown, 31 S.W.3d 234 (Tenn.2000). In Hill , we expressly held that our decision in Jordan was to apply retroactively to: (1) all cases tried or retried after the date of our decision in Jordan ; and (2) to all cases pending on appeal in which the issue decided in Jordan was raised at an appropriate time. Id. at 240. The defendants have cited no convincing reasons or authority for us to reconsider or overrule our decision in Hill .