California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Mustafa v. Mountain View Park Homeowners Ass'n, Inc., E063529 (Cal. App. 2017):
The elements of intentional infliction of emotional distress are "(1) extreme and outrageous conduct by the defendant with the intention of causing, or reckless disregard of the probability of causing, emotional distress; (2) the plaintiff's suffering severe or extreme emotional distress; and (3) actual and proximate causation of the emotional distress by the defendant's outrageous conduct.'" (Wilson v. Hynek (2012) 207 Cal.App.4th 999, 1009.)
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