White Construction Company v. Dupont

Nathaniel Dupont (plaintiff) was permanently disabled in an accident involving equipment owned by White Construction (defendant) and operated by a Limerock Industries (defendant) employee. His wife Janey (plaintiff) testified he could no longer perform household chores but offered no evidence of the value of that lost labor or the cost of hiring a replacement. The jury awarded Mrs. Dupont $1,025,000 for loss of consortium covering lost financial support, lost domestic labor, and intangible losses like companionship, and the defendants appealed the award as excessive.

Whether a spouse is entitled to loss-of-consortium damages for a tangible loss of earnings that the injured spouse could recover in his own right.