Greene v. Esplanade Venture Partnership

Decision: 2021.02.18

Argument: 2021.01.06 vid. tr.

Whether Supreme Court improvidently exercised its discretion to grant that branch of plaintiffs’ motion which was for leave to amend the complaint to add a cause of action sounding in negligent infliction of emotional distress, alleging, among other things, that plaintiff grandmother suffered emotional distress as a result of witnessing the fatal injury sustained by her granddaughter while plaintiff grandmother was within the “zone of danger.”

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• Court allows grandparents to sue for negligent infliction of emotional distress (Greene v. Esplanade Venture Partnership).
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