Shumosky v. Lutheran Welfare Services of Northeastern PA, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• nurse who was stuck by a needle used on an AIDS patient could re cover parasitic damages for fear of possible development of AIDS
• wherein a nurse was pricked by a needle used by an AIDS patient, a scientifically recognized means of transmitting AIDS
• a nurse stuck with a needle that had been used on a patient with AIDS was told at the end of her shift that she may have been exposed to AIDS
• “In order to recover for negligent infliction of emotional distress a plaintiff must establish, as in any other negligence case, the defendant’s breach of a duty and damages proximately caused thereby.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).