LIABILITY: Provides for limits on recovery in tort claims of negligent infliction of emotional distress absent physical injury. (8/1/26)

SLS 26RS-315 ORIGINAL
2026 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 67
BY SENATOR MORRIS
LIABILITY. Provides for limits on recovery in tort claims of negligent infliction of
emotional distress absent physical injury. (8/1/26)
1 AN ACT
2 To enact Civil Code Art. 2315(C), relative to limiting recovery in tort claims of negligent
3 infliction of emotional distress absent physical injury; to provide relative to an
4 injured person; to provide relative to certain types of mental anguish and emotional
5 distress; to provide relative to medical evidence; to provide relative to the duty of
6 defendants; and to provide for related matters.
7 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
8 Section 1. C.C. Art. 2315(C) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
9 Art. 2315. Liability for acts causing damages
10 * * *
11 C. To recover for mental anguish or emotional distress absent physical
12 injury under this Article, the injured person shall suffer severe, debilitating,
13 and foreseeable mental anguish or emotional distress, supported by competent
14 medical evidence, as a result of outrageous conduct on the part of the defendant,
15 who shall be shown to have breached a special, direct duty the defendant owed
16 to the plaintiff.
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SB NO. 67
SLS 26RS-315 ORIGINAL
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Senate Legislative Services.
The keyword, summary, and digest do not constitute part of the law or proof
or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
DIGEST
SB 67 Original 2026 Regular Session Morris
Proposed law (C.C. Art. 2315(C)) provides that to recover for mental anguish or emotional
distress absent physical injury pursuant to present law, the injured person shall suffer severe,
debilitating, and foreseeable mental anguish or emotional distress, supported by competent
medical evidence, as a result of outrageous conduct on the part of the defendant, who shall
be shown to have breached a special, direct duty the defendant owed to the plaintiff.
Effective August 1, 2026.
(Adds C.C. Art. 2315(C))
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions.