An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1968 |
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Law Number | 485 |
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Law Body
CHAPTER 485
An Act to amend and reenact § 8-636, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
to provide for amounts and distribution of damages recoverable under
actions for death by wrongful act. g
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Approved April 4, 1968
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 8-636, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:
§ 8-636. Amount and distribution of damages.—The jury in any
such action may award such damages for solace as to it may seem fair and
just, not exceeding * twenty-five thousand dollars, and may direct in what
proportion they shall be distributed to the surviving widow or husband
and children and grandchildren of the deceased, or if there be none such,
then to the parents, brothers and sisters of the deceased. Nothing shall be
apportioned to the parents, brothers and sisters of the deceased, if there
be a surviving widow or husband, children or grandchildren, but between
members of the same class the jury shall have absolute discretion as to
who shall receive the whole or any part of the recovery. * In addition to the
recovery above, in every such action, the personal representative of the
deceased person shall be entitled to recover the actual funeral expenses
of the decedent, not exceeding five hundred dollars, and the actual hos-
pital, medical and ambulance service expenses incurred by the decedent
as a result of the wrongful act. Any recovery hereunder, of the funeral
expenses and hospital, medical and ambulance service expenses shall be
expended by the personal representative in the payment of such expenses,
the funds available for payment of hospital, medical and ambulance service
expenses being apportioned pro rata among such specific creditors, as their
respective interests may appear. In addition to the damages set forth above,
the jury may award such further damages, not exceeding fifty thousand
dollars, as shall equal the financial or pecuniary loss sustained by the de-
pendent or dependents of such decedent and shall further direct in what
proportion such damages shall be distributed to such dependents, regard-
less of class.
No recovery hereunder shall be deemed to be assets of the estate of the
decedent and the court shall apportion the costs of recovery as it shall
deem proper.
Such damages for funeral expenses, solace and such additional dam-
ages for medical and hospital expenses and pecuniary loss that may be
awarded under this section * shall not apply to any cause of action arising
prior to July one, nineteen hundred sixty-* eight.