Supreme Court of New Jersey

Laura Fernandez v. Rudolph J…

June 28, 196852 N.J. 127

Summary

The Supreme Court of New Jersey reversed the Appellate Division and remanded for entry of judgment for the defendants, holding that the psychiatrists owed no duty to warn the police of a suicide risk and that the plaintiff's expert testimony did not establish a generally accepted medical standard linking homicidal tendencies to suicide.