Court Opinion

ID: 9733716
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 17:15:12.109664+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:43.698897
License: Public Domain

YETKA, Justice
(dissenting).
I respectfully dissent. It is well established in our law that wife and husband, subject to certain conditions, have separate claims for loss of consortium. Huffer v. Kozitza, 375 N.W.2d 480, 482 (Minn.1985); Thill v. Modern Erecting Co., 284 Minn. 508, 170 N.W.2d 865 (1969). In my view, a claim for loss of consortium, as the court of appeals pointed out, comprises undefined or intangible elements as well as “services” and “support” as those terms are used in Minn.Stat. § 466.04, subd. 2 (1990). This interpretation is more consistent with our decision in Faber v. Roelofs, 298 Minn. 16, 212 N.W.2d 856 (1973). Thus, Bonnie Rowe could pursue her claim individually for loss of consortium with a separate cap of $200,000.