Court Opinion

ID: 9695688
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 18:27:33.690617+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:15:58.129063
License: Public Domain

WIGGINS, Justice
(concurring specially)-
I specially concur in the result, because Carole Moore only argues that Barnhill v. Davis, 300 N.W.2d 104 (Iowa 1981) and Fineran v. Pickett, 465 N.W.2d 662 (Iowa 1991), permitted her bystander claim, rather than urge we extend our holding in bystander liability cases to include persons who come on the scene of impact after the impact occurred and before the injured party is removed. See Dale Joseph Gil-singer, Annotation, Immediacy of Observation of Injury as Affecting Right to Recover Damages for Shock or Mental Anguish from Witnessing Injury to Another, 99 A.L.R.5th 301, 342-53 (2002) (citing decisions from other jurisdictions extending bystander liability to situations where the plaintiff arrives at the impact site after impact occurred and before the injured party is removed from the scene).