Racial Bias in a Provider-Patient Relationship: May Give Rise to an Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress Claim

Authors

Lauren Ziegenbein, University of Nebraska College of Law

Date of this Version

1-18-2021

Document Type

Article

Citation

Nebraska Law Bulletin (January 18, 2021)

Comments

Copyright 2021, the author

Abstract

Racism continues to permeate the provider-patient relationship today on both the provider and the patient’s sides. One way to combat this racism is to bring an intentional infliction of emotional distress claim against the provider (if you are a patient) or against the patient (if you are a provider). It will be a very high bar to reach, but it is possible to reach it, as we saw in Brown and Greer.