Parilis v. Feinstein

In Parilis v. Feinstein, 49 NY2d 984, the Court of Appeals instructed that "in any wrongful death action, especially one involving a child of tender years, the absence of dollars and cents proof of pecuniary loss does not relegate the distributees to recovery of nominal damages only . Rather, since it is often impossible to furnish direct evidence of pecuniary injury, calculation of pecuniary loss is a matter resting squarely within the province of the jury" (49 NY2d at 985).