Di Teresi v. Stamford Health System, Inc.

Opinion

BEACH, J.

The issues presented in this appeal arise from the allegedly inadequate response of the defendant hospital to a report of a sexual crime committed against one of its vulnerable patients. The questions we must resolve all pertain to whether the hospital can be held hable to a patient’s daughter, her primary caregiver, for emotional trauma that she suffered in the aftermath of the assault and which she attributes, in part, to the hospital’s handling of the incident. The trial court rendered summary judgment in favor of the hospital on all of the causes of action asserted by the…