Legal Opinion
Mazzagatti v. Everingham by Everingham
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided October 16, 1986No. 125 E.D. Appeal Docket 1985PublishedCited by 116 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NIX, Chief Justice.
In the instant matter we are called upon to revisit Sinn v. Burd, 486 Pa. 146, 404 A.2d 672 (1979), and to review its parameters for pleading the negligent infliction of emotion*269al distress. Specifically, appellants ask us to recognize a cause of action for the negligent infliction of emotional distress in instances where the close relative does not observe the accident itself, but instead arrives at the scene of the accident and observes the victim a few minutes afterwards. We granted allocatur to clarify our position on this point.
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This case arose on August 12,…
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