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HUNGERFORD v. JONES

No. 97-657.

143 N.H. 208 (1998)

JOEL HUNGERFORD v. SUSAN L. JONES

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

December 18, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sulloway & Hollis, P.L.L.C., of Concord (Edward M. Kaplan and Sarah G. Smith on the brief, and Mr. Kaplan orally), for the defendant.

Thomas A. Pavlinic, of Annapolis, Maryland, and Paul A. Maggiotto, of Concord, by brief for the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, as amicus curiae.

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...

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