Court Opinion

ID: 9576308
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:23:06.605321+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:05:27.467560
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WALKER, Judge,
concurring.
I write separately to emphasize the plaintiffs’ entitlement to prove damages upon establishing their claim of negligence at trial.
The record reviewed by the trial court on defendants’ motion for summary judgment included the plaintiffs’ depositions. In their depositions, plaintiffs described the traumatic events of gunmen breaking into their room in the middle of the night, screaming, threatening, and robbing them of their valuables. This evidence from their depositions is set out in plaintiffs’ brief. We have determined that, at this stage, the elements of negligence are satisfied such that plaintiffs’ claim should survive summary judgment. If plaintiffs prove their claim of negligence at trial, they would be entitled to all damages which proximately flow from this negligence including all physical and mental injuries and pain and suffering.
As to the element of damages for pain and suffering:
Pain and suffering damages are intended to redress a wide array of injuries ranging from physical pain to anxiety, de*596pression, and the resulting adverse impact upon the injured party’s lifestyle.
David A. Logan and Wayne A. Logan, North Carolina Torts § 8.20 (d) at 178 (1996 edition).