The second is in a rare lower court case, also in New York, wherein a plaintiff is asking the court to allow for emotional damages for the loss of a companion animal, when that animal was killed right in front of the owner’s eyes, due to someone’s negligence. Current NY law only allows recovery of such damages for loss of a member of the plaintiff’s immediate human family. LANA knows that animals are also a part of our immediate family, and asks the Court to deem it so.
