Portee v. Jaffee

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that bodily injury that results in death satisfies threshold's permanent bodily injury requirement
• avoiding arbitrary distinctions does not mean that a cause of action exists for all emotional injuries to all close relatives of the victim
• limiting the circumstances under which an injured party can recover for emotional distress suffered incident to a spouse's physical injury
• limiting the circumstances under which an injured party can recover for emotional distress suffered incident to a spouse’s physical injury
• establishing elements of negligent infliction of emotional distress claim based on witnessing injury to family member
• permitting derivative action for severe emotional distress for individual who observed injury to family member

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).