Legal Opinion
Hungerford v. Jones
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Decided December 18, 1998No. 97-657PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRODERICK, j.
Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 34, the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire (McAuliffe, J.) certified to us the following questions of law:
1. Does a mental health care provider owe a legal duty to the father of an adult patient to diagnose and treat the patient with the requisite skill and competence of the profession when the diagnosis is that the father sexually abused or assaulted the patient?
2. Does a mental health care provider owe a duty to act with reasonable care to avoid foreseeable harm to the father of an adult patient resulting from treatment…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Bird v. W.C.W.Texas Supreme Court · 1994
- Walls v. Oxford Management Co.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 1993
- Panto v. Moore Business Forms, Inc.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 1988
- Simpson v. CalivasSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1994
- Zamstein v. MarvastiSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1997
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3Cited by26 opinions
- Althaus Ex Rel. Althaus v. CohenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2000
- Sawyer v. MidelfortWisconsin Supreme Court · 1999
- Remsburg v. Docusearch, Inc.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 2003
- Sintros v. HamonSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 2002
- Coan v. New Hampshire Department of Environmental ServicesSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 2010
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