Department of Children & Families v. E.G.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that emotional distress is considered a \personal injury\ for the purposes of General Statutes § 52-174
• explaining that one commonly-cited justification for a heightened evidentiary burden in cases alleging fraud is that “a person found guilty of fraudulent conduct suffers a ‘stigma of guilt’ regardless of whether the underlying action was civil or criminal”
• \[W]e concur with those jurisdictions that allow the recovery of emotional damages that are the natural and proximate result of fraud.\
• “[W]e concur with those jurisdictions that allow the recovery of emotional damages that are the natural and proximate result of fraud.”
• “[i]t is black letter law that an officer of a corporation who commits a tort is personally liable to the victim regardless of whether the corporation itself is liable”
• “[i]t is black letter law that an officer of a corporation who commits a tort is personally liable to the victim regardless of whether the corporation itself is hable”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).