Samuel Perez, Etc., Martha Beatriz Sanchez Perez v. The United States of America

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

A husband and wife injured in a motor vehicle accident appeal a district court judgment rendered pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act awarding them damages. They contend that the award should be increased because the district court erred in imputing the husband’s negligence to his wife, in identifying the wife’s past medical expenses as community property, in finding the husband 48 percent responsible for the accident, in awarding only $2,250.00 for the wife’s future loss of earnings and no damages for the husband’s loss of consortium, and in failing to award…