Talk:Hedonic damages

The person who "created" this principle, Stan V. Smith, Ph.D, was the original author of this article, creating an obvious conflict of interest. Moreover, the recently-created article about Smith began with an edit-summary comment that the article was being written on behalf of a client, presumably Smith. Smacks of self-promotion. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 18:44, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Is this a better page as far as references and 3rd party sources are concerned? What would you like to see to remove the conflict of interest statement? Editing by a neutral 3rd party / someone elses opinion that this is a neutral article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kwarnimo (talk • contribs) 20:41, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

The information, or more correctly, interpretation offered in this stub is out of date, and in many ways, incorrect. According to Thomas Ireland (Ireland, T. (2009) “The Last of Hedonic Damages: Nevada, New Mexico, and Running the Bluff” presented at the Western Economic Association International, Vancouver, British Columbia. June 30, 2009.) there are very few states that currently allow economics experts to testify regarding hedonic damages. New Mexico remains active with a 2011 appellant court decision to uphold the testimony of an expert on hedonic damages that were ultimately awarded in the amount of $5.8million.

Hedonic damages (pleasure of life damages or loss of enjoyment of life) are controversial but the majority of members of the National Association of Forensic Economics (NAFE) surveyed in 2009 would not calculate hedonic damages (84% in fact.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drphilgandini (talk • contribs) 18:43, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

This article has serious POV issues and clearly violates WP:NPOV. The majority of U.S. jurisdictions either now (1) disallow hedonic damages altogether and allow only a few things that may overlap with the definition of hedonic damages to be awarded under the rubric of noneconomic damages, or (2) if they do allow some form of hedonic damages, they require very rigorous methodology. --Coolcaesar (talk) 20:44, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree. This article is out-of-date, and does not reflect the current state of the law.Arllaw (talk) 15:09, 14 August 2017 (UTC)