Okrina v. Midwestern Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• finding plaintiff in zone of danger when she heard “what sounded like a bomb” and witnessing a wall collapse
• finding woman who, while in a department store dressing room, heard a noise like an explosion and witnessed the collapse of a wall, although she herself merely got dusty, to be within a zone of danger
• “there is no indication that it [the abandonment of the impact rule] has either spawned a flood of litigation or bred a rash of fraudulent claims since its adoption in 1892”
• \there is no indication that it [the abandonment of the impact rule] has either spawned a flood of litigation or bred a rash of fraudulent claims since its adoption in 1892\
• noting the requirement of “physical consequences of fright”
• discussing negligent infliction of emotional distress

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).