in a survival action, no punitive damages may be awarded in the absence of an underlying award of compensatory damages for such pain and suffering. As Coastal notes, the primary damages recoverable in a survival action sounding in tort are for the decedent’s pain and suffering between the time of injury and death. See Foster v. Maldonado, 315 F.Supp. 1179, 1180 (D.N.J.), petition denied, 433 P.2d 348 (1970). Damages for pain and suffering are permitted only for pain and suffering that is conscious. Carey, supra, 132 N.J. at 66, 622 A.2d 1279. Many states, including New Jersey, have allowed recovery for conscious pain and suffering whenever it can be shown the injured person survived her injuries, however briefly. See Kellow v. Central Iowa Ry. Co., 68 Iowa 470, 23 N.W. 740, 745 (1885) (<HOLDING>), reh’g denied, 68 Iowa 470, 27 N.W. 466
holding that a cause of action accrues the moment the right to commence the action comes into existence holding that the right to recover statutory damages accrues at the moment the privacy act was violated recognizing in a latent disease case that an injured persons cause of action accrues either 1 holding that survival cause of action accrues to injured person who survives injury for brief moment as certainly as it would have done if he had lived for a month or a year thereafter holding that in an environmental contamination ease a cause of action accrues  when a plaintiff knows or reasonably should know of his or her cause of action and of the identity of a party or parties who may be responsible for the injury