Rockhill v. Pollard

How courts have described this case

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• claim of IIED actionable based on single encounter between doctor and accident victim and her infant child
• that plaintiff became nervous, had to take tranquilizers, and experienced loss of appetite and sleeplessness was sufficient to state a prima facie case of severe emotional distress for resolution by jury
• for IIED claim distress must be “more than mild and transitory’
• distress must be “more than mild and transitory”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).