What is loss of consortium?
It's a claim belonging to the uninjured spouse, not to the injured person — a distinct claim for what the injury cost the marriage.
What it covers. Companionship, affection, society, comfort, assistance and services around the home, and sexual relations.
It's derivative. It depends on the injured spouse's claim succeeding, and it's reduced by the same comparative fault allocation.
What supports it. Testimony about what the relationship was before and what it is now — activities shared, division of household work, and the concrete ways things changed. Specificity matters far more than description.
Why it's often overlooked. People don't know it exists, or find it uncomfortable to discuss. It's a real category of damages and it's routinely left out of claims where it applies.
Parents have related claims in defined circumstances involving significant injury to a child, and children in some circumstances involving a parent.
If you're married and this injury changed your household, say so. It's a separate claim. ---
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