Opinion ID: 2615017
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Heading Rank: 7

Heading: under the circumstances present here, whether the mother's acts were an independent force was a question of fact

Text: According to the doctors, their relationship with the mother was severed at the conclusion of her miscarriage in January 1982, but at the very latest in April 1982 when she hung up on Dr. Keuchel. [44] They seem to suggest that (1) she had deliberately assumed control of the situation and (2) they were powerless to prevent the harm that happened almost two years after their alleged failure to administer Rho-GAM. Although evidence shows that the doctors were not treating the mother at the time she conceived Donald, she urges that Dr. Keuchel had lulled her into a false sense of security about the danger of future pregnancies by telling her that failure to receive Rho-GAM would pose no problem. This dispute clearly makes the independent-act prong of the supervening-cause test a question for the triers. 4.