Law for Business 10th Edition by James Barnes,Terry Dworkin,Eric Richards

Exercise 11

Dunphy saw her fiancé, Burwell, with whom she had been living for two years, hit by a car while changing a flat tire. He was dragged or thrown 240 feet, and she tried to help him when she reached him. She accompanied him to the hospital, where he died several hours later. Dunphy, who received psychiatric treatment as a result of the experience, sued for the emotional trauma. Can Dunphy sue for negligent infliction of emotional distress?