Beavers v. Johnson Controls World Services, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that not every intentionally caused harm gives rise to a cause of action in prima facie tort
• stating that both the appellate court and the trial court use the same balancing test to determine if the claim should be submitted to the jury
• holding the malice element to be satisfied where the plaintiff’s supervisor subjected her to “significant emotional distress” by, among other things, “ridiculing and demeaning her before other employees”
• affirming prima facie tort claim, although the defendant’s conduct fell outside the perimeters of a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress
• balancing the nature and seriousness of the harm, the nature and significance of the actor’s conduct, the character of the means used, and the actor’s motives
• limiting recovery under a theory of prima facie tort to “cases in which the plaintiff’s harm is of such a nature and seriousness that legal redress is appropriate”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).