11 Jan 2021 Jahr - Infliction of Emotional Distress (Tort) recover compensation (damages)

Beschreibung:

Black's Law Dictionary defines "mental anguish" or "emotional distress"' as an element of damages including "the mental suffering resulting from the excitation of the more poignant and painful emotions,
such as grief, severe disappointment, indignation, wounded pride,
shame, public humiliation, despair, etc."' The United States Supreme
Court has stated that emotional distress specifically describes a mental
or emotional injury that is separate and distinct from the tort law concepts of pain and suffering