Question

Mary, a 68-year-old widow, hired an electrician to make some wiring repairs to her home. The electrician accidentally started a fire that destroyed her house. Mary was not injured, but watched her house burn along with all her possessions. It was emotionally devastating to watch as she lost a whole life's worth of memories. Can she recover for negligent infliction of emotional distress?

Answer 1

No, because her situation does not meet all the elements necessary to recover for negligent infliction of emotional distress

Step-by-step explanation:

EMOTIONAL DISTRESS can be defined as the way in which a person may begin to have severe emotional distress which was caused by another person due to the that fact that the person either intentionally or recklessly inflicted it by behaving in an highly unpleasant emotional reaction which inturn leads to a non-physical and mainly psychological injury to the affected person which was why Mary cannot recover for negligent infliction of emotional distress because her situation does not meet all the elements necessary to recover for negligent infliction of emotional distress.