The scope of the judicially-created negligent infliction of emotional distress tort has been slowly, but surely, broadened over the course of Pennsylvania jurisprudence since the late 1960s.
While the case law remains pretty clear cut that such a claim can be asserted by someone who suffers an immediate jolt of severe emotional trauma from observing a close relative being physically and traumatically injured because of the negligence of another, this area of the law fades to shades of grey in less concrete situations.
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