The heirs of a man killed in a 2008 car accident will not be allowed to show a jury how his estate would have benefited from Bush-era changes to federal estate tax law had he lived longer, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday.
The justices said considering estate tax losses as pecuniary injuries would expand the state’s Wrongful Death Act “beyond its intended parameters.”
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