Francis Rudnicki and Pamela Rudnicki, as Parents, Guardians and Next Friends of Alexander Rudnicki, a Minor Child V…

Summary

The court abandoned Colorado's common-law rule limiting recovery of an unemancipated minor's pre-majority medical expenses to the child's parents. It held that either the child or the parents may recover those expenses, provided that there is no double recovery, because the traditional rationales for the rule no longer fit the modern health-care system and retaining it can leave tortfeasors liable for less than the damages they caused. The court therefore reversed and remanded the judgment below.