These damages value services such as cleaning, maintenance, childcare, and cooking that the injured person previously provided. Valuation uses replacement cost based on market rates for equivalent services.
Both past and future losses are recoverable.
Alternative Names:
Loss of Household Services, Replacement Services Damages
Why it Matters?
The claim is frequently inflated through generous hour estimates that exceed what the claimant actually performed before the injury, since the baseline rests on self-report. Establishing the pre-injury allocation through deposition and household records is the check. The claim also overlaps with lost earning capacity where the same time would have been spent working, and double counting is a recurring issue in economic reports.
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How is the claim inflated?
What overlap creates double counting?
