Amader v. Johns-Manville Corp.

MEMORANDUM

TROUTMAN, District Judge.

An individual who claims damages for infliction of emotional distress arising from observation of injuries to another person need not be physically present within the “zone of danger” to prevail. Sinn v. Burd, 486 Pa. 146, 404 A.2d 672 (1979). Instead, recovery depends upon the foreseeability of the harm, which must be analyzed in terms of the physical proximity of the “distressed” person to the event, the manner of communication thereof to him and the consanguinity between him and the victim. Id. at 170-71, 404 A.2d 672. In the case at bar, plaintiffs,…