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A hospital and a nurse were properly granted summary judgment in parents' bystander emotional distress claim, arising from alleged medical malpractice that resulted in their son's attempted suicide after an emergency psychiatric examination was conducted, as the parents failed to show that they suffered severe and debilitating emotional distress.

Connecticut recognized very limited bystander emotional distress claims in the medical malpractice context, based on the decision in Clohessy which superseded Maloney, wherein recovery was permitted for severe emotional distress that the bystander suffered as a direct result of contemporaneously observing gross professional negligence such that the bystander was aware, at the time, not only that defendant's conduct was improper but also that it likely would result in the death of or serious injury to the primary victim; However, summary judgment was properly granted to a hospital and a nurse in such a claim that arose from their discharge of the parents' son after an emergency psychiatric examination was conducted, whereupon he attempted suicide, as the parents had not suffered severe and debilitating emotional distress as a result of the alleged negligence.

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Source: Squeo v. Norwalk Hosp. Ass'n, 316 Conn. 558, 113 A.3d 932, 2015 Conn. LEXIS 100 (Conn. 2015)