Harrison v. Loyal Protective Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a cause of action for intentional infliction of emotional distress survives the death of both the victim and the tortfeasor
• holding that the infliction of emotional distress is damage to the person
• legislative decision to create exception to hearsay rule for declarations of deceased persons is applicable in all civil cases
• after the death of the wronged or wrongdoer, the function of damage awards is compensatory
• “The original reasons for the nonsurvival of torts at common law have been largely obscured in antiquity.”
• administratrix could proceed with decedent’s tort claim, which survived his death under G. L. c. 228, § 1

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).