WEIDNER v. SACRED HEART HOSPITAL

No. 82-C-2446.

23 Pa. D. & C. 3d 656 (1982)

Weidner v. Sacred Heart Hospital

Common Pleas Court of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.

November 4, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Fries, for plaintiffs.

Nancy Kattelman Busch, for defendant.


DAVISON, J., November 4, 1982.

The issue of extending recovery for negligent infliction of emotional distress is raised here. Specifically, defendant Ismail Nabati's preliminary objections challenge the claim of plaintiffs Emery and Mary Weidner for emotional distress allegedly precipitated by injury suffered by their incompetent adult son, David Thomas Weidner. The complaint avers that, subsequent to surgery performed on David, defendants were negligent in...

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