# Corrigan v. General Electric Co.

> Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · January 18, 1990 · 406 Mass. 478

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9736970

## Case

- **Full name:** Pamela D. Corrigan vs. General Electric Company
- **Court:** Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- **Decided:** January 18, 1990
- **Citations:** 406 Mass. 478; 548 N.E.2d 1238; 1990 Mass. LEXIS 48
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Wilkins
- **Judges:** Wilkins, Abrams, Nolan, Lynch, O'Connor, Greaney
- **Cited by:** 15 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Wilkins, J.
(concurring). In Ferriter v. Daniel O’Connell’s Sons, 381 Mass. 507, 543 (1980) (Wilkins, J., dissenting), I disagreed with the view that a spouse of an injured worker had a common law claim against the employer for loss of consortium. The Legislature has since overruled the Ferriter decision on this point. See G. L. c. 152, § 24, as appearing in St. 1985, c. 572, § 35. Although (in order to achieve equal treatment) I accept the Ferriter rule for all persons as to events occurring before its legislative abrogation, I do not accept a Ferriter-like rule as to a spouse of *482 a worker who, it has previously been determined, did not have a compensable claim. I need not worry about issue preclusion. The spouse simply has no common law claim.

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