Allen v. Otis Elevator Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that there need be no causal connection between impact or injury and emotional distress
• the impact rule “provide[s] a cut-off point for liability for physical injuries resulting from emotional distress inflicted by [a] defendant’s negligence ...”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).