Opinion ID: 2615017
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: the doctors' counter-appeal

Text: The trial court did not err by failing to direct a verdict for defendants on the wrongful death claim. A claim for the wrongful death of a child born alive may be pressed under the circumstances present here, where the direct causal connection between failure to prevent the mother's sensitization and the subsequent birth of the child with a fatal condition is crystal clear. Conflicting evidence about what the mother knew or should have known about her own condition made the limitations issue one for the jury; its submission is free from error. JUDGMENT REVERSED AND CAUSE REMANDED FOR NEW TRIAL. HODGES, C.J., LAVENDER, V.C.J., and HARGRAVE, and WATT, JJ., concur. SUMMERS, J., concurs in result. SIMMS and KAUGER, JJ., concur in part; dissent in part. ALMA WILSON, J., dissents.