California Court of Appeal

Violation of 17 CCR section 6527, which requires clinicians to advise all pregnant women in their care of the availability of a test to screen for neural tube defects in the fetus, is intended to protect wrongful life plaintiff born with neural tube defects and not just taxpayers.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/15/2001
• Published 05/15/2001

Judges

•  CHARLES S. VOGEL, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Jacobs, Jacobs & Rosenberg, Stanley K. Jacobs, Santa Monica;  and Marian H. Tully, West Covina, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• O'Flaherty, Cross, Martinez & Ovando and John J. Weber, Glendale, for Defendant and Respondent.