Bill Text: VA SB380 | 2019 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Personal injury; loss of consortium claims by certain relatives.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-11-30 - Left in Commerce and Labor [SB380 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2019-SB380-Prefiled.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §55-36 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted and that the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 8.01-38.2 as follows:
§8.01-38.2. Personal injury; loss of consortium claims by certain relatives.
A. The spouse of a person who suffers personal injuries as a result of negligence shall have a cause of action for loss of consortium and may recover damages for the following:
1. Loss of services;
2. Loss of society and companionship;
3. Lost wages of the spouse caused or necessitated by caring for the injured person or the minor children of the injured person; and
4. Loss of sexual relations.
B. The parent of a minor child who suffers personal injuries as a result of negligence shall have a cause of action for loss of consortium and may recover damages for the following:
1. Loss of services;
2. Loss of society and companionship; and
3. Lost wages of the parent caused or necessitated by caring for the injured minor child.
C. The adult child of a person who suffers personal injuries as a result of negligence shall have a cause of action for loss of consortium and may recover damages for the following:
1. Loss of services;
2. Loss of society and companionship; and
3. Lost wages of the adult child caused or necessitated by caring for the injured person.
D. Such causes of action may be brought independently or together with such injured party's cause of action.
§55-36. Contracts of, and suits by and against, married women.
A married woman may contract and be contracted with and sue
and be sued in the same manner and with the same consequences as if she were
unmarried, whether the right or liability asserted by or against her accrued
heretofore or hereafter. In an action by a married woman to recover for a
personal injury inflicted on her she may recover the entire damage sustained
including the personal injury and expenses arising out of the injury, whether
chargeable to her or her husband, notwithstanding the husband may be entitled
to the benefit of her services about domestic affairs and consortium, and any
sum recovered therein shall be chargeable with expenses arising out of the
injury, including hospital, medical and funeral expenses, and any person,
including the husband, partially or completely discharging such debts shall be
reimbursed out of the sum recovered in the action, whensoever paid, to the
extent to which such payment was justified by services rendered or expenses
incurred by the obligee, provided, however, that written notice of such claim
for reimbursement, and the amount and items thereof, shall have been served on
such married woman and on the defendant prior to any settlement of the sum
recovered by her; and no action for
such injury, expenses or loss of services or consortium shall be maintained by
the husband.
