Moreover, the availability of hedonic damages may diminish a collateral
obtaining hedonic damages can undercut that sense of empowerment,"
The question how hedonic damages should be measured was
Still, the question whether courts should award hedonic damages looks
Recently some state courts, including two district courts of appeal in California, have disapproved the use of hedonic damages and have ruled that testimony related thereto is inadmissible.
1993, The Misallocation of the Hedonic Damages Concept, Journal of Forensic Economics, 6(2): 93-98.
This last item, called
hedonic damages, is basically an expression of the dollar value of a life, determined by economists to be quantifiable at $1.
Recent decisions take the logical approach of allowing hedonic damages to comatose victims, reasoning that "what is lost is the real personal joy and pleasure that the comatose victim might otherwise have experienced.
Supreme Court held that hedonic damages are not punitive damages and therefore are not prohibited under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA).
TRIAL MANUAL FOR PROVING HEDONIC DAMAGES 6, 14-15 (1992).
35) By Marsh's reading, "losses" now included pain and suffering and
hedonic damages, including the "full amount" of losses that might occur at any point in the future, so long as they could be somehow tied back to the trauma from the offense.
