Carrol v. Allstate Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• affirming NIED judgment for plaintiff who had been accused of committing a criminal offense and, as a result of baseless investigation, suffered loss of sleep, loss of appetite, intense depression, and social isolation from his community
• “I established myself in the mental Health and Counseling Department of Yale health in December 2019”
• “Conduct on the part of the defendant that is merely insulting . . . is insufficient to form the basis for an action based upon intentional infliction of emotional distress.”
• “[O]ur normal practice [is to decide] an appeal on the same basis on which it was tried in the trial court. See State v. Bell, 188 Conn. 406, 413, 450 A.2d 356 [1982].”
• “To establish a claim for negligent infliction of emotional distress, a plaintiff must ordinarily show she (1) was within a zone of danger of physical impact; (2) reasonably feared for her own safety; and (3
• ‘‘in order to prevail on a claim of negligent infliction of emotional distress, the plaintiff must prove that the defendant should have realized that its conduct involved an unreasonable risk of causing emotional distress’’ [internal quotation marks omitted]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).