Northside Hospital, Inc. v. Ruotanen

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• stating that rude behavior to the family of a deceased person was not sufficiently egregious
• noting that the relevant “comments and conduct, although possibly rude and insensitive in light of [the plaintiff’s] recent loss, do not rise to the level of outrageousness necessary to sustain a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress”
• an element of a claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress is that “[t]he conduct must be extreme and outrageous”
• hospital official's conduct toward bereaved, although rude and insensitive, was not outrageous

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