White v. Lunder

The issues are:

1. Where wife sustains bodily injury by reason of causal negligence of herself, her husband, and a third party, is the negligence of the spouses combined for purposes of comparing negligence with that of the third party and thereby determining whether husband recovers for medical expenses and for loss of consortium?

2. Where wife sustains bodily injury, are her husband’s causes of action for medical expenses and for loss of consortium both derivative actions?

The issues are discussed together here because they are closely related and involve basically the same principles. Before…