Is there compensation for the loss of companionship, love, and affection of a family member who has been killed?

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 Yes. Tennessee Courts have interpreted wrongful death damages (in Tennessee) to include these damages, saying “An individual family member has value to others as part of a functioning social and economic unit. This value necessarily includes the value of mutual society and protection, i.e., human companionship. Human companionship has a definite, substantial and ascertainable pecuniary value, and its loss forms a part of the value of the life we seek to ascertain.” Jordan v. Baptist Three Rivers Hospital, 984 S. W.2d 593 (Teen. 1999).

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