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| | Liability for negligent reporting of syphilis - Molien v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, 27 Cal. 3d 916, 616 P.2d 813, ... |
 | | Siliznoff (1952) 38 Cal. 2d 330, 338 [ 240 P.2d 282], it is the outrageous conduct that serves to insure that the plaintiff experienced serious mental suffering and convinces the courts of the validity of the claim. |
 | | Siliznoff, supra, 38 Cal. 2d at page 338, the jurors are best situated to determine whether and to what extent the defendant's conduct caused emotional distress, by referring to their own experience. |
 | | Legg, supra, 68 Cal. 2d 728, 731.) In Amaya, five years earlier, we held that a mother observing her seventeen-month-old son "'struck and run over by the defendants' truck'" is not entitled to recover for her "'emotional shock and great mental disturbance. |
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