DI TERESI v. STAMFORD HEALTH SYSTEM, INC.

No. 33052.

63 A.3d 1011 (2013)

142 Conn.App. 72

Santina DI TERESI, et al. v. STAMFORD HEALTH SYSTEM, INC., et al.

Appellate Court of Connecticut.

Decided April 23, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Lewis , Stamford, with whom were Christine D. Salmon and, on the brief, Stephen A. Finn , Stamford, the appellant (plaintiff Virginia Di Teresi).

Eric J. Stockman , New Haven, with whom, on the brief, was Vimala B. Ruszkowski , New Haven, for the appellees (named defendant et al.).

BEACH, BEAR and SCHALLER, Js.


BEACH, J.

The issues presented in this appeal arise from the allegedly inadequate response of the defendant hospital to a report of a sexual crime committed against one of its vulnerable patients. The questions we must resolve all pertain to whether the hospital can be held liable to a patient's daughter, her primary caregiver, for emotional trauma that she suffered in the aftermath of the assault and which she attributes, in part, to the hospital's handling of the...

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