Tort Negligence Liability For Psychiatric Damage In Arizona
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In Arizona, a plaintiff in a negligent infliction of emotional distress action must witness an injury to a closely related person, suffer mental anguish manifested as physical injury, and be within the zone of danger. Pierce v. Casas Adobes Baptist Church, 162 Ariz. 269, 272, 782 P.
A mentally disordered defendant who commits negligence will be liable, even if his or her actions could be attributable to illness. Since a seventeenth-century dictum indicating that a 'lunatic' would be answerable in trespass,3. the courts have been unwilling to excuse mentally ill defendants' tortious liabilities.
If a car veered off the road and struck a child, the parent could recover for emotional distress if he had been standing next to the child at the time of the accident. Standing next to the child would have put him in the zone of danger and thus, would have put the parent himself at risk.
The tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress requires: (1) the conduct of the defendant must be extreme and outrageous; (2) the defendant must either intend to cause emotional distress or recklessly disregard the near certainty that such distress will result from his conduct; and (3) severe emotional ...
In claims of negligently inflicted psychiatric illness, the plaintiff's reaction to a traumatic event is usually measured against a standard of normal susceptibility and disposition. This measurement is used to determine the question of whether the defendant should have reasonably foreseen the plaintiff's injury.
These legal elements include a professional duty owed to a patient, breach of duty, proximate cause or causal con- nection elicited by a breach of duty, and resulting in- juries or damages suffered. 1 These 4 elements apply to all cases of negligence regardless of specialty or clin- ician level.
Evidence. Medical records of therapy sessions or diagnoses related to emotional distress. Witness statements from individuals who observed your emotional state. Personal journals or diaries documenting your emotions and their connection to the defendant's conduct.
