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DEARBORN FABRICATING & ENGIN. CORP. v. WICKHAM

No. 71S03-9003-CV-228.

551 N.E.2d 1135 (1990)

DEARBORN FABRICATING AND ENGINEERING CORP., Inc., Appellant (Defendant below), v. William D. WICKHAM, Pamela Wickham, Le Ann Wickham, and Jennifer Wickham, Appellees (Plaintiffs below).

Supreme Court of Indiana.

March 27, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Kent Rowe, Jerry E. Huelat, Martin J. Gardner, Rowe, Foley & Huelat, South Bend, for appellant.

Douglas A. Mulvaney, Stutsman Law Office, Elkhart, for appellees.

DICKSON, Justice.

This case presents a question of first impression in Indiana: whether a minor child has an independent claim for loss of parental consortium when a parent is negligently injured by a third person. The trial court and the Court of Appeals held that minor children may assert such a claim. Dearborn Fabricating and Eng'g Corp. v. Wickham (1988), Ind. App., 532 N.E.2d 16.

William D. Wickham; his wife...

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