Spangler v. Bechtel

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the modified impact rule arises when the defendant owes a legal duty to the plaintiff or a third-party and the direct impact to the plaintiff is proximately caused by the defendant’s breach of that duty
• “We have never permitted, nor do we today, an action seeking damages for emotional distress predicated upon a breach of an alleged duty not to inflict emotional injury on another.”
• “Claims for negligent infliction of emotional distress, if arising from alleged medical malpractice, are subject to the MMA . . . because they are ‘otherwise’ a result of alleged malpractice.” (Emphasis in original).
• “Individuals including health care providers owe unborn children a duty of care”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).