Pou v British American Tobacco (New Zealand) Ltd - [2006] 1 NZLR 661

Accident compensation — Deaths by accidents — Whether claims confined to pecuniary losses — Whether claim in relation to loss of maternal care and guidance a claim for pecuniary losses — Whether appellants could claim for pecuniary losses associated with loss of benefits which mother would have provided but for death — Whether parental care and guidance claim available at suit of adult child — Principle of reciprocation under Deaths by Accidents Compensation Act 1952 — Whether could be assumed benefits would have been counteracted by reciprocation to mother — Likely quantum of damages — Law Reform Act 1936, s 3.