In a defective product case, as in most tort cases, the damages would include both economic and non-economic damages. Economic damages are things like your medical bills and your lost earnings. Non-economic damages are pain and suffering, lost of enjoyment of life. If it’s a wrongful death case then the measure of damages changes and it becomes instead of lost to the person who died, you would look at the losses of the survivor, which would be a surviving spouse or sometimes another relative.