Ruttger Hotel Corp. v. Wagner

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting argument of plaintiffs that “the mere fact that the robber touched them when he ‘pushed’ them into the bathroom [in their hotel room] is sufficient impact to maintain their negligent infliction of emotional distress claim” against the hotel
• to recover damages for emotional distress caused by a defendant's negligence, the impact rule requires that the emotional distress flow from physical injuries
• impact rule precluded recovery where robber's actions in holding a gun to victim's head and pushing victims into a bathroom were insufficient to establish a physical injury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).