Brandy Lynn Fecke, Stephen C. Fecke, and Karen Fecke v. the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College

|TI agree with the majority’s ultimate disposition of the three issues raised in these consolidated matters; however, I write separately to more fully address the issue of Brandy’s entitlement to loss of future earnings.

In its opinion, the majority traces the jurisprudence stemming from this court’s decision in Folse v. Fakouri, 371 So.2d 1120, 1123-24 (La. 1979), which drew a distinction between “pecuniary loss,” ie., “loss of future earnings” and “loss of future earning capacity,” to conclude that, under the evidence in this case, “Brandy’s future loss of earnings is pecuniary in nature,…