1 Emotional Distress in Tort

The Tort of Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress in the Private Employment Sector

The Future of Emotional Harm

Why should tort law treat claims for emotional harm as a second-class citizen? Judicial skepticism about these claims is long entrenched, justified by an amalgam of perceived problems ranging from proof difficulties for causation and the need to constrain fraudulent claims, to the ubiquity of the injury, and a concern about open-ended liability. To address this jumble of justifications, the law...

TORT LAW—What Happened to Duty in Wyoming? Negligent Supervision of Minors, Loss of a Sibling’s Consortium, Duty to Inspect One’s Premises, and Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress; Hendricks v. Hurley, 184 P.3d 680 (Wyo. 2008)

Employer abuse, worker resistance, and the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Death, Happiness, and the Calculation of Compensatory Damages

Death, Happiness, and the Calculation of Compensatory Damages This paper studies the mental distress caused by bereavement. The largest emotional losses are from the death of a spouse; the second-worst in severity are the losses from the death of a child; the third-worst is the death of a parent. The paper explores how happiness regression equations might be used in tort cases to calculate comp...