Maloney v. Conroy

The plaintiff Susan Maloney filed an amended complaint1 against two physicians, Michael Conroy and George Dickenson, and also the Meriden-Wallingford Hospital seeking damages for a severe emotional disturbance alleged to have resulted from the malpractice of the defendants in treating her mother, Anita Maloney. After the trial court had granted motions of the defendants to strike her complaint, the court rendered a partial judgment against the plaintiff. In her appeal the plaintiff has raised the single issue of whether one who is closely related to a victim of alleged malpractice may recover…