BorgWarner Morse TEC Inc. (2015) 239 Cal.App.4th 165, 189, cited these cases – but it did so on the “dependency for necessaries” holding, not as to the dicta regarding the time frame for evaluating it: “Additionally, they [Hazelwood, Perry] clarify that parents cannot be considered ‘dependent’ for purposes of the wrongful death statute unless they were ‘actually dependent, to some extent, upon the decedent for the necessaries of life. [read post]

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