Opinion ID: 1758792
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Heading: Extending Common Law to Recognize Child's Consortium Claim for Parent's Death

Text: Two years after Sanchez, we again extended the common law, this time to permit children to recover damages for the mental anguish and loss of companionship resulting from their parents' death. Cavnar v. Quality Control Parking, Inc., 696 S.W.2d 549, 551 (Tex.1985). In Cavnar, we reiterated that injuries to the familial relationship are compensable. Id. (citing Sanchez, 651 S.W.2d at 252). Then, in recognizing the Cavnar children's right to recover for their mother's death, we said: There is no logical reason to treat an injury to the familial relationship resulting from the wrongful death of any family member enumerated [in the wrongful death statute] differently depending on whether it is the spouse, parent or child that dies. Id. (emphasis added)