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Cleveland State University

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Wrongful death

1984

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Garland V. Herrin: Surviving Parents' Remedies For A Child's Wrongful Death - The Pecuniary-Loss Rule And Reckless Infliction Of Emotional Distress, Kathleen Keogh Miller Jan 1984

Garland V. Herrin: Surviving Parents' Remedies For A Child's Wrongful Death - The Pecuniary-Loss Rule And Reckless Infliction Of Emotional Distress, Kathleen Keogh Miller

Cleveland State Law Review

The parents of Bonnie Garland are only two of the innumerable third-party victims who have suffered from the wrongful death of a child. Because the "emotional distress" suffered by the Garlands was comprised of so many elements, the wrongful death of their child provides a framework for analyzing all the harms engendered within the term "emotional distress" and the availability of civil remedies for each of those "separable" harms. The tragedy of the Garlands will be used as a vehicle to assess the success of legislatures and courts in enacting and interpreting wrongful death statutes. The important question becomes whether …