Is a police officer investigating a crime immune from liability for negligent infliction of emotional distress?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Larson v. Barber, D067668 (Cal. App. 2016):
1205, 1210-1211 [police officers investigating crime immune from liability for negligent infliction of emotional distress]; Kayfetz v. State of California (1984) 156 Cal.App.3d 491, 497 [collecting cases].)
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