• 1999 - Severe Defined
  • C-20.10
    • Emotional Distress
    • Tort Liability
    • Tort Liability

  • The word "severe," in the phrase "severe emotional distress," means substantial or enduring as distinguished from trivial or transitory. Severe emotional distress is emotional distress of such substantial quantity that no reasonable person should be expected to endure.

     

    In determining the severity of emotional distress, you should consider its intensity and duration.

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    • 12.1-01-14
    • 12.1-27.1-01
  • Notes: 2006 - reviewed with no changes