Hinzman v. Palmanteer

(concurring in part; dissenting in part)—I concur except in that part of the majority opinion which grants damages to the deceased child’s estate in addition to those awarded the parents.

Now that the legislature has expressly allowed recovery for the death of a child to include “medical, hospital, medication expenses, and loss of services and support” and the “loss of love and companionship of the child and for injury *341to or destruction of the parent-child relationship” (RCW 4.24.010; Laws of 1967, Ex. Sess., ch. 81, § 1, p. 1734), and by decision this court has augmented the statute to…