Fortman v. Förvaltningsbolaget Insulan AB

Opinion

ALDRICH, J.

Barbara Fortman seeks to recover as a bystander for the emotional distress she suffered when she witnessed the tragic death of her brother Robert Myers while they were scuba diving off the coast of Catalina Island. At the time of the accident, Fortman thought her brother had a heart attack. She later learned that a plastic flow-restriction insert manufactured by defendant Forvaltningsbolaget Insulan AB, doing business as SI Tech (the company), had become lodged in Myers’s second-stage regulator, which prevented him from getting enough air to breathe while underwater.

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