Stump v. Ashland, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiffs did not have to actually witness injury being inflicted to recover for negligent infliction of emotional distress where plaintiffs were present at scene of injury-producing event
• holding that plaintiffs did not have to actually witness injury being inflicted to recover for negligent infliction of emotional distress where plaintiffs were present at scene of injury-producing event
• applying Criss to a motion to dismiss an emotional distress claim for being duplicative of a wrongful death claim
• rejecting a “double recovery” challenge to plaintiffs request for separate punitive damages and emotional distress damages in a case where claims for both wrongful death and negligent infliction of emotional distress were made.
• liability may be found when an injury occurs “as a result of the defendant's negligent conduct”
• liability may be found when an injury occurs “as a result of the defendant's negligent conduct”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).