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JACOBY v. BRINCKERHOFF

(SC 16014)

250 Conn. 86 (1999)

BRUCE JACOBY v. PAUL BRINCKERHOFF ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Officially released August 10, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. Pacifico, for the appellant (plaintiff).

Gaileen A. Kaufman, with whom, on the brief, was Garie J. Mulcahey, for the appellee (defendant John Rhinehart).

Borden, Berdon, Norcott, Palmer and Peters, Js.

Opinion

PETERS, J.

In this medical malpractice case, the underlying issue is the extent to which a psychiatrist should be held liable for malpractice to a person who is not his patient but the former spouse of his patient. In particular, we must decide whether, in the absence of a claim against him by the patient, a psychiatrist owes any duty to the patient's former spouse, to compensate him or her either for loss of consortium or for the direct injury...

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